33 OR, A TREATISE ON FEMALE RUIN, IN ITS CAUSES, EFFECTS, CONSEQUENCES, CONSIDERED ON THE BASIS OF THE DIVINE LAW: An Examination of the Principles and Tendency of "Whofoever attempteth any thing for the PUBLIC (efpecially if it per"tain to RELIGION, and to the opening and clearing of the WORD OF "GOD) the fame fetteth himself upon a ftage, to be glouted upon by "every evil eye; yea, he cafteth himself headlong upon pikes, to be gored by "every sharp tongue. For he that meddleth with men's religion, in are mart, "meddleth with their cuftom, nay, with their freebold; and though they find "no content in that which they have, yet they cannot abide to hear of altering." ไป Tranflators of the BIBLE. Preface to the READER. LONDON: Printed for J. DODSLEY. M.DCC.LXXXI, 1 "Whether a SYSTEM filled with obligation and "responsibility, of MEN to WOMEN, and of "WOMEN to MEN, even unto death itself, "and this eftablished by INFINITE WISDOM, " is not better calculated to prevent the ruin "of the female fex, with all its horrid confe66 quences, both to the public and indivi"duals, than a SYSTEM of human contrivance, "where neither obligation nor responsibility ❝are to be found, either of MEN to WOMEN, "or of WOMEN to MEN, in inftances of the "most important concern to BOTH, but espe cially to the weaker fex ?" See Vol. i. Pref. xxiii, xxiv, CONTENTS OF VOL. III. PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHA P. XII. Page 1 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 CHA P. XIII. 4 Obfervations on the foregoing-applied to the CHAP. XIV. Of the true ORIGIN and NECESSITY of 254 151) 20.1945 |