John H. Livingston

Name: A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law
Author: John H. Livingston

A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

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“A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law”, published in 1816, is a work by John H. Livingston. It explores elements such as delicacy, Decency and sister in law.

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ They can enter fully into the subject — they know what DECENCY requires, and under its influence, will yield to all that has been suggested against commiting incest with a sister in law.
Marriage is justly styled "a delicate institution," essentially connected with order and decency. Sweet spring of purest comforts, exuberant source of domestic happiness, it pours its precious blessings wherever it is honoured, and amply pays for protection and defence. But, exposed to insults and susceptible of injuries, it withholds its invaluable benefits from those who suffer it to be abused and polluted. ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ Such marriages trespass upon the rules of decency ; they are inimical to that purity, and chastity of families, which insure the repose and happiness of society ; they are hostile to that virtue and delicacy, which the religion of nature, and revealed religion inculcate. ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ No suspicion of indecency can arise in her mind, nor any imputation of indelicacy upon the part of the public. She may come, remain^ or go, in all the safety of innoeency, under the broad shield of the divine law, and the universal consent and approbation of society. But let it be once adopted, let practice establish the detestable principle, that the sister, after the death of the wife, may become not at all related to the husband ; that she may be to him a stranger, and as much the le- gitimate object of marriage as any other woman, and her frequent and familiar visits must cease. ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ Let us always, in this view, enendeavour to keep the moral sense uncorrupted, and pray that God would preserve the delicacy of our minds in this respect, that a holy sensibility of soul may warn and alarm us to guard against every distant appearance of evil. ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ Decency expresses whatever is decorous and consentaneous to character; it comprises, that delicacy in morals, that refinement in sentiment, and that precision in conduct, which render virtue amiable, interesting, and a source of comfort to society.
"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ With this affee ing and sublime group of words, the inspired Apostle suggests the influence and extent of sanctified principles, and recommends that beauty of holiness and undeviating rectitude of Christian manners, which include all that is implied in decency and delicacy.
Christians are "the salt of the earth" — "the light of the world," — "a city set upon a hill." They must " do more than others," and "through Christ which strengtheneth them," they actually do more than others. ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ Let us study the beautiful and the venerable, as well as what is true and just, in actions, and pur^u^ every thing which shall, as such, approve itself to our consciences ; every thing in which there shall be virtue and praise. ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ They will rapidly depreciate in taste and sentiment, and infallibly degenerate in morals. If the fountain of social virtue be troubled and poisoned, the streams will inevitably be turbid, bitter, and fatal— "thine own ne§s shall correct thee, and thy backsliding shall re- prove thee." ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ Morality in all its extensive branches, from purer motives and with greater precision, is practised by them than by any other men. They deny themselves, and are afraid to sin ; they avoid every appearance of evil, and hate " even the garment spotted by the flesh,'"'^ This refinement of sentiment and principle makes little pr r o impression upon the wicked, whose pursuits and habits have never been regulated by such exalted standards, and who have no desire to be sav saved from their sins ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ As it respects himself and the unhappy victim of his incestuous cohabitation — is it not indecent to persuade her to an act, which could she have fore- seen, would, from principles of delicacy, have pre- vented the familiar intercourse, in which, as a sister ^ she had innocently indulged ? ”

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John H. Livingston, A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man With His Sister in Law (1816)

“ Beside, let it impress the public mind with holy fear, let it be remembered with reveren- tial awe, that God is jealous of his own ordinances, and will not suffer any person with impunity to pro- fane them ; especially those who are blessed with his word and profess to be his people, ^^lithey call evil good, and good evil ”

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