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“Yea every Passion strives that only he,
Might Ruler in that Microcosmos be.
Ev’n Hope, ( that, when this discord first fell out,
Was sent to keep Despair’s rude forces out,
And be a comfort to this troubled state,)
Becomes an Actor in this foul debate.
And, when she had got footing in his breast,
Under the color of procuring rest,
Built Castles in the air; from whence did grow,
Another means of Reason’s overthrow:
Yea, Choler, Jealousy, black Envy, Hate,
And bloody Cruelty aimed at this state.”
—George Wither—
Abuses Stript and Whipt
(1612)
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Clerihews
The Impuritan William Plaine
by Puritans was slain
back in 1646 [not on this day]
for being a “bundle of sticks.”
Methodist Revivalist John Wesley,
born this day in 1703,
long preached God’s just judgment and hell fire
against modern “Methodist” desire.
The Swiss revolutionist democrat J.J. Rousseau
was born this day in 1712; and he once did sow
the demon seed of an allegedly divine “General Will,”
whose fruit –history has proven– does kill.
Gilbert Baker,
the pride flag’s maker,
said “gay” rights advocates were fighting “a new revolution,” “demanding power, taking it,”
but they merely raised a monument to dissolution. May a Christian Revival begin erasing it!
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“We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.”
—Michael Swift
“Gay Revolutionary,“
Gay Community News,
Feb. 15-21, 1987
NEW PURITAN 