MARRIAGE AFFINITY QUESTION: OR, MARRIAGE WITH THE SISTER OF A DECEASED WIFE FULLY DISCUSSED, IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY, ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL LAW, BY THE REV. JAMES GIBSON, A.M., FREE KINGSTON CHURCH, GLASGOW. EDINBURGH: M.DCCC.LIV. GENERAL CONTENTS. Section II.-Opinions of the Jews, 15, 16 Council of Neo-Cæsarea, General remarks on opinions of the Jews, 19, 20 Letter of M. Revel, Moderator of the Waldensian Church, Conclusions drawn from these opinions and M. Revel's letter, 29 Inaccuracies of Marshall's (an American's) account of Henry's Universities of Oxford and Cambridge less honest than the Con- Section VII.-Opinions of American Protestants down to 1842, Section VIII.-Relative Testimony of Human Legislation, Law in Protestant States after the Reformation-Boehmer and Inconsistent statements of American writers as to the law in several of the United States, Inaccuracies in regard to the law of European States, Progress and effects of Infidel opinions in America, Prevalence and effects of Infidel and Pantheistic opinions in Statement of Dr Julius Müller on this subject, Germany, The Law of Scotland-Erskine's Institutes, Hume's Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, Bell's Principles of the Law of Scotland, Opinions of Lord Stair, Ferguson's Consistorial Law in Scotland, Opinions of the Lord Advocate for Scotland, Vote of the United Presbyterian Synod on a proposed overture for altering the Confession of Faith on the question, Code Napoléon, Extract from Manton on the law as a rule to Christians, 3. Old Testament proved to be a rule of faith and manners to Section II.-General Bearing of the Levitical Law, Section III-Argument from Leviticus xviii., Its obligation, universal and permanent, Grotius on the permanency and universality of Leviticus xviii., Argument of Mr Binney against universality and permanency of the law in Lev. xviii., of no force, Section IV.-To whom, and on what Principles, the 18th Chapter of Levi- Section V.—On what Principle, as applicable to the Present Question, the Mr Sleigh's Letter to the Bishop of Exeter, Section VI-Special Texts of Scripture-Lev. xviii. 16; xx. 21, The phrase "brother's wife," in Lev. xviii. 16, means brother's Lev. xviii. contains prohibitions against Incest, Refers to cases of Affinity as well as to cases of Consanguinity, Lev. xviii. 16 forbids a man to marry his brother's wife, and by The Divine Lawgiver may, of his own authority, relax, for special Degrees of Affinity more remote than a wife's sister are for- Laws prohibiting such marriages are in no sense ceremonial, Opinion of a Mormonite and that of his wife on the subject of Concealment, by writers on the opposite side, of the opinions of |