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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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Beetle ks, SoS becky 26 ©The Blefings of Polygamy, Be. Lf a man Jball take bis brother's wife, it is bent on the next brother to marry the wi- dow, and to raife up feed unto his brother, and the difobedience to this law was pu- nifhed with death in the cafe of Onan [K}. The fourth inftance I produce is from Ezra’s exhortation to the people and to the -priefts to put away their ftrange wives [L], which no doubt he did by the dire@ion, or at leaft by the full approbation of God ately after he had addrefled God in the moft tution of marriage, thofe whom God had [K] Gen. xxxvin. 8, 9, 10. , [L] Ezra. x. 1, 2, &c. throughout. _ a . RiE* 4

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