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The blessings of polygamy displayed in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, A treatise on female ruin... / By Richard Hill, esq.

  • Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet
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1781
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Credit: The blessings of polygamy displayed in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, A treatise on female ruin... / By Richard Hill, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Chriftian laity many who had more wives than one. But we may juft as wel] infer, that becaufe the elder women were to be felected out of thofe who had each of | them been the wife of one man, (1 Tim, v. 9.) therefore there were many other Chriftian women who had. more hufbands than one. The words directly anfwer to one another in both places. The hufband of one wife, or of one woman; and the wife of one hufband, of of one man, and the pur- pofes for which they were chofen, were in ‘many cafes the fame [C]; fo that as you interpret the one text with regard to the woman, who was to be chofen as a dea- conefs from among the widows, that fhe muft be one who had only been once mar-~ ried; fo you mutt alfo interpret the other text which relates to the man, (whether prieft or deacon) that he muft be chofen out of fuch as had only been once married. —But you fay that text, 1 Zim. v. 9. which relates to the widow, is in the paft tenfe, having been the wife of one man, [C] More particularly where the man was chofen to the office of a deacon. See x Tim, ili. 12. | whereas
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