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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
Date:
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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    with the higheft commendations of a good one, and the dreadful lot and condition of the poor man who has the plague and tor- ‘ment of a bad one. Yet throughout the whole, God fpeaks in the fingular number (wife) and never in the plural (wives). Nay there is one paflage, which if we give the words their plain, eafy fcope, (and I fhall not attempt to twift or darken them by any interpretation of my own) will near- ly amount to a pofitive injunGtion of Mono- gamy [D], and confequently to a direé&t pro- hibition of Polygamy. ‘The words are thefe, Drink waters out of thine own ciftern; and a running waters out of thine own well. Let “not [E] thy fountains be difperfed abroad, ond if rivers [D] For the benefit of the plain Englifh reader I ob- ferve once for all, that Monogamy means the mar- tying or having only one wife at a time. Bigamy Means having two wives at a time, and Polygamy (which Mr. Madan chiefly defends) having many Wives at a time, [E] Though I muft confefs myfelf to be no He- breean, yet a friend of mine who has a critical know- ledge of that language, aflures me oa the authority of the learned Mr, Kennigot, that this word (not) ftands | | in
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