Rampant Reformation & Enlightenment Polygamy for Christians

As soon as the Bible could be read in the vernacular, the polygamy of the patriarchs began to stimulate the imagination. It suffices to remind of the Anabaptist Jan van Leyden who openly propagated polygamy in Munster in 1534, of the 'Dialogus Nebuli' written in 1541 by Lening on instigation of Philip van Hesse, who wanted to obtain permission for a bigamous marriage from Luther and Melanchton. In 1563, the former Franciscan Bernardino Ochino, a Calvinist with growing sympathy for Anabaptism, wrote his 'XXX Dialogues'. Only in 1823 was discovered the manuscript 'De doctrina' written by Milton simultaneously with 'Paradise Lost'. In 1637 Johan Lyserus (Leyser) writes a 'Discursus de Polygamia', and in 1676 he publishes a book wherein is written that Adam had many ribs: 'Das Koenigliche Mark aller Laender'. 'Polygamia Triumphatrix' is published in 1682. Think also of the former Methodist Westley Hall and the 'Thelyphthora' published in 1780 by the equally apostate Martin Madan.

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