O R,

A TREATISE ON

FEMALE RUIN,

IN IT S

CAUSES, EFFECTS, CONSEQUENCES, PREVENTION, AND REMEDY;

CONSIDERED ON THE BASIS OF THE

DIVINE

Under the following HEADS, viz.

MARRIAGE,

WHOREDOM, and

FORNICATION,

With many other INCIDENTAL MATTERS;

LA W:

ADULTERY,
POLYGAMY,
DIVORCE;

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

dark

Illumine, what is low raife and support ;-
That, to the height of this great argument,
affert ETERNAL PROVIDENCE,
And juftify the ways of GOD to MEN.

may

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MILTON.

LONDON:

Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall.

M.DCC.LXXXI,

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Preparing for the Prefs-and speedily will be published,

THELYPHTHORA,

VOL.

III.

I. Shewing by what means, and by what degrees, the laws of JEHOVAH concerning marriage, were oppofed and abrogated, and a NEW SYSTEM invented and established by CHRISTIAN CHURCHMEN. Extracted from the most authentic records, from the earlieft times of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH after the APOSTLES, to the decrees of the COUNCIL of TRENT, anno 1563, inclufive.

II. Obfervations on the foregoing uninterrupted SERIES of inconteftible EVIDENCE, and the WHOLE applied to the subjects of this TREATISE.

III. The true ORIGIN and NECESSITY of MARRIAGE-CEREMONY.

With many other INCIDENTAL MATTERS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

EDICATION,

PREFACE to First Edition,

to Second Edition,

D'

INTRODUCTION,

CHA P. I.

Of MARRIAGE as a DIVINE INSTITU-

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TION,

CHA P. II.

Of WHOREDOM and FORNICATION,

CHA P. III.

Of ADULTERY,

CHA P. IV.

Of POLYGAMY,

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I

CHA P. V.

300

CHRIST not the GIVER of a New Law,

APPENDIX TO CHAP. I.

Containing FARTHER THOUGHTS on Exod.

xxii. 16, 17,

397

APPENDIX TO CHAP. II.

BUCER on CONCUBINAGE,

401