INDEX
TO VOL. II.
A
ADULTERY not a cause of divorce a vinculo matrimonii, a Popish tenet, 3, n.
Abraham and Hagar, no exception to the rule against divorce, 24, n.
Alexander, Dr. History of Women, observes the protection which Deut. xxviii. 29. affords to female chastity, 32, n.
Athenæus, his account of a custom relative to old batchelors, 57.
Arragon, Catherine of, her marriage with Henry VIII. 70, n.
Antipodes, the doctrine of, once reputed heresy, 99, n.
Albigenses, 140, and n.
Ambrose, a violent stickler for celibacy, 117, n.
Alanus de Rupe, his blasphemy on priesthood, 194, n.
Apostolical constitutions, forgeries, 194, n.
Abortion, procurement of, a species of murder, 283, n.
Abuse, an unfair ground of argument, 288, n. Much used by the Papists against the Reformers, ib. n.
Antiquity of a doctrine, no proof of its truth, 309, 310.
B
BEDFORD, Duke of, makes a motion for the repeal of the marriage-act, 38, n. Part of his speech thereon, 58.
Bellarmine allows of polygamy, 89, n. Contradicts himself, ib.
Beccaria, Marquis of, on conjugal fidelity, 54, n. On child-murder, 282, n.
Blackstone, his opinion on restraints upon marriage, 54. Brazen serpent, broken by Hezekiah, 104, n.
Basil, clock at, 128, n.
Blackstone, his account of the first invention of marriage by priests, 141.
Banns of marriage, when invented, 147. The true reason thereof, ib. n.
Bourdeaux, a young lady at, stoned to death, 164.
Bonner, Bishop, his speech on the dignity of priests, 189, n.
Burnet's Hist. Ref. referred to concerning the visitation of monasteries, 112, n.
Bastard, the term improperly used, 239.
Bellarmine of indulgences, 276, n.
Bottle-conjuror, 312.
Bell, Dr. on the sacrament, 331, n.
Barbeyrac, his account of Grotius's change of opinion with respect to Christ's altering the law of Moses, 362, & seq.
Beccaria, Marquis of, on false ideas of utility, 375, n.
Blacksmith and his child, 376, n.
C
CRIM. CON. actions for, 75, n.
Congo, the Christians of, polygamists, 89, n.
Clandestine marriages, provided against by several statutes, 54.
Celibacy discouraged by the Heathens, 56, 57. By the Jews, 259.
Canon against clandestine marriages, 59.
Cusanus, Cardinal, his saying, at the council of Trent, on the subject of expounding Scripture, 71, n.
Ceremony, marriage, necessary, and to be enforced in every case, 64, 67.
Christianity, considered as in itself, and as abused, 94, n.
Copernican system, once accounted an heresy, 99, n.
Cave, Dr. William, an historian of primitive Christianity, 112, 115, 125. White-washer of the antients, 124, n.
Coxe's Sketches of Switzerland, quotations from, 127, n. 248, n.
Child-murder, cause of, 162, 237, 309, n. An horrid instance of, 308, n.
Contracts of marriage, of all sorts, vacated, 46–48, and n.
1 Cor. iv. 3, 4. explained, 157, n.
Conscience, what, 168. The evidence on which it should determine as a judge, 169.
Carthaginians, their method of appeasing their idol Saturn, 169–70.
Capuchin Friar, conversation with, 179, n.
Confarreation, a mode of marriage among the antient Romans, what, 185, n.
Churchmen, their pride and insolence of early date, 194, and n.
Cyprian, St. his high notion of episcopal dignity, 194, n.
Campegius, Cardinal, a saying of his on priests' marriage, 209, n.
Cerinthus, a position of his, 223.
Castration, practised by Christians, 227–8.
Christians, primitive, their condemnation of marriage, the occasion thereof, 226.
Corban, what, 240.
Celibacy frequent among us, and why, 247–8.
Calculation on our loss of people, 249, 250.
Constantine encourages celibacy, 252, n.
Chester, Bishop of, cites his commissary into the spiritual court, 262, n.
Contrast between the divine and human systems, 267.
Conclusion, 278.
Ceremony, not of the essence of marriage, 294, n.
Calixtus, a sentiment of his on the obligation of the divine law, 299, n.
Corollaries arising from the banishment of the divine law, 304–8.
Cajetan, Cardinal, asserts St. Paul's allowance of polygamy, 315, n.
Catharists, in the 12th century, their doctrine, 319.
Chastity of the clergy, in the 3d century, but ill observed, 324, n.
D
DINAH, the case of, n.
David, his lamentation for Absalom different from that on account of his child by the wife of Uriah, 19.
Divorce caufâ precontractûs on the man's side, unauthorized by Scripture, and illegal under the divine law, 21, and n.
——— bill of, its intention, 4, n. 77, n.
——— too expensive for the generality of people, 75, n.
Doctors-commons, a sentence of divorce there, on a clause in the marriage-act, 48, n.
Dryden, a saying of his, 73.
Dido, her vow against a second marriage, 114, n.
Deut. xxi. 13, explained, 189, n.
Deserted Village, quoted on the misery of a prostitute, 237, n.
Dæmons, married people supposed to be most subject to their influence, 228, n.
Derham, Mr. his tables of births and burials, 249, n.
Dispensation of the Pope to the King of Portugal, to marry his own niece, 144, n.
Design, the Author's, in this Treatise, 346.
David and Bathsheba, their adultery, 358. Their marriage afterwards, 360.
Deut. xvii. 17, explained, 378, and n.
E
ECCLESIASTICAL Courts, not of divine original, 45, n. Their proceedings on marriage-contracts before the marriage-act, 50.
Eccl. iv. 1. on oppression, quoted, 151.
Eunuchs, mentioned Matt. xix. 12, what 229.
Еph. vi. 12. explained, 231.
Errors, which this Treatise unfolds, and proposes a remedy for, 342–345.
F
FREE-ENQUIRY, a privilege and duty, 101.
————————— secured by the Church of England, 134, 135.
Female-ruin, floodgates of, 160.
Fornication, how committed with a man's own wife, 124, n.
Fuller's-earth of reputation, what, 33.
Foundling-hospital, not an adequate remedy against child-murder, 293.
France, laws of, with respect to seduction, 294–296.
G
GOTHS, compelled marriage in case of seduction, 29.
Germans, antient, their custom in case of adultery, ib.
Gordian knot, Alexander's saying about it, 68.
Gnatho, an emblem of worldly wisdom, 71, n.
Galileo invents telescopes, and forced to renounce the Copernican system as heresy, 99, n.
Going in unto a woman, what, 188, and n.
Guillon, Claude, his sad fate, 233, n.
Guastalla, order of, 324,
Gospel, in the Old Testament and New Testament one and the same, 317.
H
HEATHEN women, marriage with them lawful and valid, if they were proselytes, 8, n. Otherwise not, 9.
Holt, Chief Justice, his opinion on the validity of marriage-contracts, 49.
Horace quoted on the presumption of mankind, 50.
Henry VIII. his marriage with Catherine of Arragon, 70.
Haram, sacred among the Mahometans, 85.
Hudibras, on the influence of money in Church and State, 145, n. On sectaries, 373.
Hottentot and European compared, 310, n.
Horace, quoted on the subject of error, 182, n. On a happy marriage, 177. On the increase of evil, 301. On moderation, 335, n.
Hickes, Dr. his tracts, in Lord Sommers's collection, on the dignity of Bishops, 190, n. On prayers for the dead, ib. n.
Heb. xiii. 4, explained, 230, and n. Popish gloss, 323.
Help meet, &c. what, 229, n.
Harlots, antient, what, 256, n.
Husband and wife, no such terms in Scripture, 291, 292, and n. Used by the author, why, ib.
Hoggarth, Hannah, her melancholy case, 308, n.
Hebrew Scripture, the test of truth, 316.
————————— the foundation of the New Testament, 317.
Hierax, an heretic in the 3d century, 319.
Hannah, her case more particularly considered, 349–357.
——— supposed, for argument's sake, the first wife of Elkanah, 354.
J
JEROME writes against marriage, 116. Against Jovinian, 117. Against Vigilantius, 118.
Jehoiada orders a chest for the temple offerings, 130.
Jacob, Mr. his Dictionary quoted on the subject of marriage, 141.
Innocent III. Pope, gets marriage into the hands of the priests, 141, 142.
Impediments to marriage added or dispensed with by the Council of Trent, 28, n. 69, n.
Jesuits expelled out of Tonquin, 82, n.
Ignatius to Polycarp—Epistle, on marriage before a Bishop, 138, n.
John viii. 3, &c. applied to the censorious reader, 160–1.
Jewish priesthood, dignities of, claimed by the Christian clergy, 196.
Justices of the peace, marriages performed by them, 197, n.
Jealousy, God's, over his laws, 212.
Jeroboam, why he set up the calves, 217.
Jealousy, trial of, under the law, 220.
Instinct, a law to brutes, 245.
Jews, numerous, 252, and n. Why, 258.
——— Letters to Mr. De Voltaire, 255–6.
——— married young, 259, 260.
Idleness partly the ruin of the Jews, 261, n.
Jews more merciful to seduced women than the Christians are, 297.
K
KING, Christ refuses to be made one, 226.
King, Mr. his computation on marriages, 249. n.
L
LAWS, their permanency, rules to judge of, 26, 27.
Lolme, Mr. De, his opinion of the marriage-act, 55.
Lollards, 140, and n.
Lamech the first polygamist mentioned, 152, n.
Leo, Emperor, publishes an edict against those who married thrice, 121. Caught in his own trap, ib.
Lombard, Peter, discovers seven sacraments, 139.
Luther, anathematized by the Papists, canonized by the Protestants, 155, n.
Lying prophet of Bethel, 192.
Luther, abuse of him, for defending the marriage of priests, 209, n.
Legislation, the divine, inherent in Jehovah, 225, and n.
Le Clerc on Gen. iv. 19. p. 152, n.
Lausanne, and the country about it, less populous than heretofore, 248, n.
Luzatier, Simon, his account of the numbers of Jews, 252, n.
Luxury, one cause of celibacy, 261.
Letter, affecting one, in the General Advertiser of October 16, 1778, p. 302.
Luke xiv. 26 and 33. explained, 327.
M
MESSIAH, his genealogy considered, 14–17.
Marriage, as a civil contract, and, as such, the object of human laws, 35, 94, n. What is the essence of it as a divine institution, 136, n.
Marriage-act considered, 38, & seq.
—————————, its heathenism and popery, ib. n.
Marriages, among the Jews, with heathen women, 8, n. and 9, n.
Montesquieu gives physical reasons for polygamy in some countries, 79, n.
Montague, Lady M. W. on the sale of women, 80, n.
Mehmet Effendi, the Turkish ambassador in France, a saying of his, 85, n.
Minotaur, the Cretan monster, 98.
Monkery, established early in the fourth century, 111, n.
Marriages, second, condemned, 125, and n. 230.
Marriage-ordinance, as divinely instituted, 135, n. Whether solemnized by a minister of the church among the primitive Christians, 138.
—————————, no scripture warrant for it, 184.
—————————, a money-scheme, 145, n.
Moloch, children sacrificed to, 162.
Maskwell, his saying, 171, n.
Massacres of Protestants, 170, and n.
Mules, some divines stiled so, 190, n.
Marriage-plan, Popish, the model of ours, 202, n.
Mark vii. 9, &c. applied, 240–1.
Mules never breed, 245, and n.
Marcion corrupts the New Testament, 226, n.
Messiah, every Jewish woman excited to marriage, in hopes of bringing him forth, 259, and n.
Mensa & toro, persons separated from, not liable to the penalty of Jac. I. c. 11. p. 306, n.
Manes, his contempt first of the Old Testament and then of the New Testament, 318.
Marriage, always the same in God's sight, 332.
N
NORTHAMPTON, Marquis of, his case of divorce, 5, n.
Neocæsariensian Council, disapproves of second marriages, 125, n.
O
ORDERS of ministers in the Christian church, 191.
—————— never had any thing to do with matrimony, ib.
Oppression, remediless, as described Eccl. iv. 1, p. 151.
Origen castrates himself, 227. Explains scripture on the principles of the Platonic philosophy, ib. n.
P
PROSTITUTES, none in Israel, 30.
Papian law, 38, n.
Polygamia triumphatrix, quotation from, 81, n.
Polygyny, its difference from polygamy, 83, n.
1 Pet. ii. 13. explained, 66, n.
Prior, on the human mind, when judging and determining for itself, and when led on by vulgar opinion, 97, n. On heresy, as depending on human opinion, 157, n.
Philosopher's Stone, marriage has proved so to the clergy, 143, and n.
Post-legitimation of marriage and issue, a strange method of, 148.
Portuguese, their behaviour on the execution of heretics, 133.
Popery, a curse and plague, 171, n.
——— always the same, ib. n.
Polygamy, the question of its lawfulness of the highest importance, 179, n. Not an object of the seventh commandment, 222–3.
Priests, no such order in the Christian church, 192. A title belonging to all real Christians, 194.
Phineas, his zeal commended, and why, 216.
Polygamy, condemnation of, whence it arose in early times, 231. Restrained, 335.
Population, and comparison of the Jewish law with ours, 245.
Prostitute, as described by the Hebrew term קדשה, what, 256, n.
Phædrus, the two wallets, 287, n.
Polygamy, consequences of, among the Jews, 264. Of its banishment from us, ib. and n.
Penance and commutation, the original of, 273.
Portugal, King of, marries his own niece, 144, n.
Pillar-saint, 321.
Polygamy, where evil, 335, n.
Potter, parable of, Jer. xviii. 2–4, applied, 372, n.
Prior, his Solomon quoted, 379, n.
Q
QUAKERS, their marriages, 197–8.
R
REYNOLDS, Archdeacon, his account of the marriage-ceremonies, 139.
Ray, Miss, her sad catastrophe, 307, n.
Reduplication of expression denotes the certainty of the thing spoken of, 158.
Ring, in marriage, derived from the heathen, 203, n.
Reason of law, a rule and measure of its continuance, 235.
S
SHYLOCK, his exclamation, 28.
Seraglio, laws of, abominable, 79, 80. Worse scenes in England, 86, 87.
Superstition, 91. Defined, 100. Its genealogy, 98. Caveat against it by the church of England, 134–5.
Soter, fifteenth Bishop of Rome, throws marriage into the hands of priests, 143, n.
Style, alteration of, in the year 1751, the occasion of a curious piece of superstition, 128, n.
Sermons, two, on the marriage-act, examined, 184.
Samaria, woman of, Christ's discourse with her, about her having no husband, explained, 187, n.
Socinius, his doctrine, 224.
Solomon no bastard, though born under a polygamous marriage, 222, 357.
Severians, their opinion about marriage, 254, n.
Suicide, female, 283, n. Terrible instances of, 307–8, n.
Switzerland, law of, respecting seduction, 297.
Seneca, on the increase of wickedness, 301.
Scotch-women, infanticides, and why, 307, n.
Satan, his plan to destroy the human species, 325.
T
TRENT, Council of, condemn clandestine marriages, 38, n.
————————————, its decree on the subject of impediments, 69, n. Other decrees, 313, n.
Turks, their distrust, 84. Their opinion of an adulterer, ib.
Tonquin, King of, banishes the Jesuits for preaching against polygamy, 82, n.
Tertullian, on clandestine marriages, 147, n.
Tamar and Amnon, 163.
Trinity, the names of, used in the Romish ritual of marriage, to make the people believe a lye, 201, n.
Transubstantiation of evil into good, 163, n.
Talmud, a saying of, respecting the marriage of daughters, 260.
U V
VOLTAIRE, on the ignorance of Popish priests, 101, n.
Virgil's account of the Harpies applicable to Popery, 171, n.
Uzziah, King, his usurpation of the priestly office punished, 199.
Vhemic court, its severity, 233, n.
Venereal disease, when supposed to have appeared in Europe, 270, n.
W
WOMEN less valued than beasts, 53.
——————, their passions weaker than those of men, 181.
Whoredom, where a man may commit it with his own wife, according to the opinion of some of the fathers, 124, n.
Women, means of their corruption, 181.
———, some owe their ruin to themselves, 30.
Whore, the term improperly used, 239.
———, definition of, 164.
World, the, loves its own ways, &c. 244.
Women not permitted polygamy, and why, 287.
Wickliffe's bones burnt, 339.
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