Attention Readers:
The following publication is PUBLIC DOMAIN throughout the entire planet. This means that anyone can legally publish the following book in part, or in its entirety and freely distribute its contents. I think this is great.
The book THELYPHTHORA; or, A TREATISE ON FEMALE RUIN was written in the orginal by none other than Reverend Martin Madan, colleague, contemporary, and close correspondent to John Wesley. The original manuscript can be located at the following Google Web Site: THELYPHTHORA
This book fully advocates the true doctrine of BIBLE POLYGAMY and further expounds on the reasons why God ordained it among His people. I wonder how many christians today are even aware that John Wesley was also an advocate of BIBLE POLYGAMY. I wonder how many today are aware that Martin Luther also confessed that this form of marriage was indeed godly and completely condoned it. So why are our religious leaders today keeping the FULL BIBLE TRUTH from us? Could it be that our esteemed pastors have simply forgotten our church history, are clueless concerning the reformation of the so-called church, and simply have no idea of what the scriptures say on this topic? I think not. Be rest assured that the truth is just not that popular. In a dedicated reverence to resurrecting a literary phoenix written to the glory of God, I have personally undertaken the task of typing out and REPRODUCING the complete text in legible English for all the guests and members of Full Bible Truth to read at their leisure. May God bless you and may Jesus Christ lead you into the fullness of His Truth.
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"This is the original and best colation. Many passages are addressed in the later editions". 639 WOMEN.--- Thelyphtora, or a Treatise on Female, Ruin in its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention, and Remedy, under the following heads :--- Marriage, Fornication, Adultery, Polygamy, Divorce, etc., 3 vols, 8vo, FINE COPY, NICE OLD BRILLIANT CALF GILT, very scarce; 1780---1
The contreversy which this singular work occasioned lasted long, and was carried on with great keenness. In it the author maintains that the lawfulness and Polygamy as authorised by the Mosaic law, and therefore obligatory on Christians, includes the RARE 3RD VOL, published afterwards.
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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
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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.
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IN TWO VOLUMES*. -------- VOL. I.
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----- What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;---
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may affect ETERNAL PROVIDENCE,
And justify the ways of GOD to MEN.
MILTON.
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L O N D O N:
Printed for J. DODSLEY.
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M.DCC.LXXX.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
The AUTHOR doth not scruple to call this TREATISE, one of the most important and interesting Publications, that have appeared since the Days of the Protestant Reformation.
He has the Pleasure of assuring the READER, that this is not the Language of Vanity and Self-applaude, but of the many eminently learned and pious Men, to whose Perusal the M.S. was submitted, and with whose entire Approbation it makes its public Appearance.
To trace the Causes of Female Ruin, to point out a Remedy against it, in an Age when its Increase is most alarmingly progressive, is a WORK, which, surely, on the first Mention of it, ought to recommend itself to the most serious Consideration of every Well-wisher to the Peace, good Order, Comfort, and Welfare of Society.
The AUTHOR pretends to no Merit, as to any new Discoveries made on the Subjects herein treated ---- His Labours have been only directed to the Search of Truth, as revealed and recorded by the Divine Wisdom ---- to the Detection of Error, Superstition, and Falshood, as they appear in Human Systems, and as they are the Occasions of more Mischiefs to the World, than all the Wit or Wisdom of Man can ever obviate or remove.
He has endeavoured to avoid the tiresome Dryness which usually attends Treatise-writing; and, by the Introduction of much Variety of entertaining Matter, he flatters himself that the READER will not find Him to have been unmindful of HORACE'S Rule:
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci,
Lectorem delectando pariterque monendo. Ars. Poet.
A2 As
So reads page "nine" in the Acrobat Reader. I believe that the content of this book is worth preserving. It would also be good for the public to have access to this manuscript in a format that can be easily read and it is for this reason I have endeavoured to reproduce it as such. - Jacobs_Trouble
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