OR,

A TREATISE ON

FEMALE RUIN,

IN ITS

CAUSES, EFFECTS, CONSEQUENCES,

PREVENTION, AND REMEDY;

CONSIDERED ON THE BASIS OF THE

DÍ V I N E L AW:

Under the following HEADS, viz.
MARRIAGE, ADULTERY,
WHOREDOM, and POLYGAMY,
FORNICATION, DIVORCE;
With many other INCIDENTAL MATTERS;

PARTICULARLY INCLUDING
An Examination of the Principles and Tendency of

Stat. 26 Geo. II. C. 33.

L O N D ON:
Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall.

Preparing for the Press and speedily will be

published, THELYPHTHORA,

VOL. III.

1. Shewing by what means, and by what de

grees, the laws of JEHOVAH concerning
marriage, were opposed and abrogated, and a
NEW SYSTEM invented and established by
CHRISTIAN CHURCHMEN. Extracted from
the most authentic records, from the earli-
est times of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH after
the APOSTLES, to the decrees of the Coun-

CIL of TRENT, anno 1563, inclufve.
II. Observations on the foregoing uninter-

rupted series of incontestible EVIDENCE,
and the whole applied to the subjects of
this TREATISE.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

EDICATION,
PREFACE to First Edition,

to Second Edition,

INTRODUCTION,

CH A P. I.

Of MARRIAGE as a Divine INSTITU-

TION,

18

C Η Α Ρ. ΙΙ.

.

Of WHOREDOM and FORNICATION,

46

CHAP. III.

Р.

Of ADULTERY,

57

CH A P. IV.

Of POLYGAMY,

74

CH A P. V.

Christ not the GIVER of a New Law, 300

3

APPENDIX TO CHAP. I.

Containing FARTHER THOUGHTS on Exod.

397

APPENDIX TO CHA P. II.

BUCER ON CONCUBINAGE,

401

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