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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

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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is agreeable to the mind of God at one time, | and even matter of duty in his creatures to comply with, may at another time be ab- folutely wrong and finful. The frf inftance I bring fhall be adduced from that almoft original com- — mand of God. Be fruitful and multiply [G]. - Now it is moft certain that this command mutt have. been fulfilled by the marriages of neareft relations at the time it | was given, and for feveral years afterwards, as alfoimmediately after Noah’s flood ; and | this without any fin whatever in the perfons fo marrying; but when the world was peopled and the reafon for fuch marriages no longer fubfifted, then God forbad them both to Jews and Gentiles as unlawful; wicked, and inceftuous. But if we were — , to adopt your grand argument in defence ; of Polygamy on this occafion, then we mutt | fay, that ‘“ God himfelf having inftituted — - or permitted an inceftuous intercourfe | among the immediate defcendants of Adam | and Eve and of the generations of Noah, 7 fG} Gen. i. 20- a | | under —

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