itional superstitions quality o A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in\rthe late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled\rwith signs o sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all\rname together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father\rthe first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: "come\rout from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you\rshall be my people” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons\rexplaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churched \ropqopqopqopqMeanwhile, many settles had slighter religious commitments\rthan Dane's, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk
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