John Ireland

NUPTIE SACRE;

OR

AN INQUIRY INTO THE SCRIPTURAL

DOCTRINE

OF

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

ADDRESSED TO

THE TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY.

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND ROW,

ST. JAMES'S,

NUPTIE SACRE, &c.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

AMONG the debates which distinguished a
late Session of Parliament, those which took
place in both Houses upon the Bill proposed
to you
"for the punishment, and more ef-
fectual prevention, of the crime of Adultery,"
were, in their own nature, sufficiently re-
markable, and drew after them a more than
usual attention from the public. I will not
take upon me to renew the regret excited in
the minds of many excellent persons by the
temper which was allowed to mingle itself
with those discussions. I will not recall
the unhappy levity with which so grave a

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