Thelyphthora/Volume 1

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.

IN TWO VOLUMES.———VOL. I.

THE SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.

———What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;—
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.

Milton.

LONDON:

Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall.

M.DCC.LXXXI.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

DEDICATION, — page i

Preface to First Edition, — v

—————— to Second Edition, — xviii

Introduction, — — 1

CHAP. I.

Of Marriage as a Divine Institution, — — 18

CHAP. II.

Of Whoredom and Fornication, — 46

CHAP. III.

Of Adultery, — — 57

CHAP. IV.

Of Polygamy, — — 74

CHAP. V.

Christ not the Giver of a New Law, 300

APPENDIX to CHAP. I.

Containing Farther Thoughts on Exod. xxii. 16, 17, — — 397

APPENDIX to CHAP. II.

Bucer on Concubinage, — 401

ERRATA.

Page 22. n. l. 27. for a solemn contract—read fidelity.

23. n. l. 5. ditto.

67. l. 10. for very feeble—read comparatively feeble to what it once was, before the abolition of the writ de hæretico comburendo, 29 Car. II. c. 9.

72. l. 11. for valiies—read vallies.

79. n. l. 8. for liver on the right side, and heart on the left—read liver on the left side, and heart on the right.

144. n. l. 15. for 161—read 152.

207. l. 6 from the bottom, for τνη—read την

296. l. 2. n. after p. add 249.

298. l. 28. after p. add 175–177.