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The blessings of polygamy displayed in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, A treatise on female ruin... / By Richard Hill, esq.

  • Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1781
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Credit: The blessings of polygamy displayed in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, A treatise on female ruin... / By Richard Hill, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i - pep hes pst The Blefings of Polygamy, Gs 182 the matter of Polygamy] «* but by no means that they thought rig/#,” and would infert in their ftead, “‘ This proves what I. would have them think, but by no means what they did think.” The above-named learned, pious, and faithful hiftorian ohn Sledan giving an account of that peftilent fect called Ana- | baptifts, (which was totally different from thofe we now call Baptifts) tells us, that® “¢ they introduced Polygamy ;” that obs of Leyden their chief leader or king, com- manded his twelve teachers to declare, «that a man was not obliged to confine «* himfelf to one wife, but might marry as “many as he pleafed;” that thereupon ** they harangued upon matrimony from > “their pulpits for three days together ; ** foon after which, he (Sobn of Leyden) * married no lefs than three wives.” —That “ moft of their party had no lefs than five - “ wivesaman. That this impious wretch «¢ who was their principal prophet, made one nies) &
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