WILLIAM LINDSAY, D.D., PROFESSOR OF SACRED LANGUAGES AND BIBLICAL CRITICISM TO THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BODL GLASGOW: MAURICE OGLE AND SON; LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. MDCCCLV. 110. d. 439. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER VI.-Consideration of the question whether the law in Leviticus includes any cases besides those which CHAPTER XI.-Consideration of several arguments of a to obey the law of the land in reference to marriage,....... 159 CHAPTER XIII.-How should the Civil Law of marriage be PREFACE. THE author of the following pages has not considered it advisable to augment their bulk, by entering into historical details regarding the views which have been held in different ages upon the question which he handles. He does not undervalue authorities. It is always interesting, and, for the most part, it is highly instructive, to examine the conclusions which the men of past times have reached. And he is persuaded that an argument of no mean force might be grounded upon the unanimity with which, through long ages, almost all churches and Christian states have condemned those marriages which some parties are now seeking to legalize. he has confined himself to a simple discussion of the question at issue. He has formed his own But |