The cases of impotency and virginity fully discuss'd : being, the genuine proceedings, in the Arches-Court of Canterbury, between the Honourable Catherine Elizabeth Weld, alias Aston, and her husband Edward Weld, Esq; of Lulworth-Castle in Dorsetshire / Published by John Crawfurd, L.L.D.

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1732
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Credit: The cases of impotency and virginity fully discuss'd : being, the genuine proceedings, in the Arches-Court of Canterbury, between the Honourable Catherine Elizabeth Weld, alias Aston, and her husband Edward Weld, Esq; of Lulworth-Castle in Dorsetshire / Published by John Crawfurd, L.L.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fuch Conjunction innocent, but it is not what is . mainly and principally intended by him who made them Male and Female. And therefore ’tis but an Impertinence to tell us that Adam and Eve were com- pleatly marry’d before they went into the Bridal-Bower: ’Tis fo with every honeft Couple, as well as with our firlt Parents But would they have been com- pleady marry’d had they never gone into that Bridal-Bower at all, and liv’d for many Years? What Marriage, I pray, would that have been ? They might have been good Company and good Friends, but they could no more have been faid to be Man amd Wife, with refped to what God in¬ tended by Marriage, than two Men, or two Women, living together in Unity and Amity, may be faid to be marry’d together. I believe it would puzzle the Dodors to prove that Adam and Eve were ever mar¬ ry’d at all, any otherwife than by a mu¬ tual Confent to go together; for there was no confent of any Superior to afk or obtain; and there could be no need of promifing to be faithful to each other, for there was no Body elfe to go to. I wonder fuch an Inftance ftiould be pitch’d upon. But now, my Lords, I come to the great Argument of all which is brought so prove a Marriage compleat, tho’ its - d EffeCt