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Title Page	p003
Table of Contents	p008
I. MARRIAGE	p009
II. AFFINITY	p025
III. INCEST	p035
IV. LAW	p057
V. LEVITICUS XVIII. 16	p081
VI. DECENCY	p099
VII. OFFENCE	p107
VIII. SUMMARY	p113
IX. OBJECTIONS	p123
X. TESTIMONY	p147
XI. CONCLUSION	p173

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A DISSERTATION, &c.

SECTION I.

MARRIAGE.

MARRIAGE is a divine institution constituting an union between one man and one woman. It was ordained for obtaining a legitimate increase of the human family; for providing mutual help and comfort; and for preventing uncleanness.

To the adorable Creator it necessarily and exclusively appertained to determine in what way, or by what means, he would introduce mankind into existence. An immediate act of omnipotence, might have produced every individual, without any direct relation or natural subordination to any other. But it pleased him, that all should spring from one source, and thus be all of new blood. To accomplish