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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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    ' , ~ The Blefings of Polygamy, Se. 7 “under that great primeval command in- creafe and multiply, and having blefied the perfons and heard the prayers of thofe who practifed it, and having adopted their iffue as legitimate, therefore inceftuous marriages can never be finful under the gofpel, and he who prefumes to fay that a brother may not now lawfully marry his own fifter, attempts to be wifer than Jehovah himéfelf, adopts the principles of Mahomet, Cerin- thus, and Socinus, and in fact fets God and his Son Jefus Chrift,at variance with each other.” How nearly this ie*your own language upon much more flender proof of what you have advanced, let thofe who _ have read your book judge. The /econd inftance I mention in proof of what I have faid, fhall be taken from the alteration of the fabbath. For the fe- venth day God refted from all the work which he had made, and be bleffed and fanc- tified it | H1}. | [H]-Gen. ii. 2. In
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