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Thread #72550   Message #2311393
Posted By: GUEST
09-Apr-08 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Summons to New England
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Summons to New England
I found this in an online book on goggle. Sexual Revolution in Early America" by Richard Godbeer        

"New England Puritans were not exempt from such attacks.   A seventeenth-Ccentury English broadside entitled "The Summons to New England" claimed that the supposedly "unspotted" and "pure church" established there had used the notion of religious freedom to justify sexual libertinism."

Loe, in this Church all shall be free

To enjoy their Christian liberty.

All things made common and t[a]'void all strife

Each man may take another wife,

And keep a hand maid too if need

To multiply, increase and breed.