Volume 3

Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law: under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters; particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of stat. 26 Geo. II c. 33. commonly called The marriage act / [Anon].

  • Madan, Martin, 1726-1790.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law: under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters; particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of stat. 26 Geo. II c. 33. commonly called The marriage act / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jlatute itfelf, compared with thofe of ver. 22. and ver. 25; and afferts, that it was never repealed, (See vol. i. Introd. p. 10.) And, furthermore, he would hereby be under- ftood to challenge his adverfaries to prove the contrary.—One thing is clear, that God has not repealed it; and it is equally clear, •that man cannot,—The Author is entirely of opinion with the \2i^-vsits\\AOx\Q.dL commentator^ that, if this divine statute was car- ried into ^ execution, it would fave many from ruin, both of body and fouland on 'this pojition has he ventured his work into the world. It muft be confefTed, that the above com- ments are fo cautioiijly worded, as to leave a jiichcy as it were, in which may be placed the word unmarried—any unmarried manP' &c.—This has actually been done by fome— (fee before vol. i. 258. 2d edit.) — but as it has not been done by the Lawgiver Him- self — and I am for giving Him credit for knowing bejl how to exprefs His own mean- ing—I doubt not, that, if He had had any other than what appears from the paJJ'age it- Jelf as it ftands, and indeed from the whole texture of the yewijh laWy He would not have left it, either to the Jewish rabbies or Christian expojitors^ to have made it out —but have been as particidar with regard to the defcription of the man^ as He is with refpecfl to that of the woman, 1 own my- ^ How the fpirit and intenticn of it might, in fome meafure, be complied with, even in 2i mono^anoui coun- try—fee vol. i. p. 2QC, and n. ad edit. felf