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If this chapter, like a sermon, required a text, it could be supplied from Psalm 122: ‘Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself’ (in the words of the English Psalter) or (as the Geneva Bible [1560] has it) ‘that is compact together in itself. The force of the original Hebrew depicts the crowded, even slumlike character of the city, as if it were the ‘Great Wen’ of London of which King James I and William Cobbet in their generations complained, or some human catastrophe of the modern Third World. It is indicative of the positive evaluation of civic life in early modern Europe that the translators and exegetes of Psalm 122 altered this meaning to celebrate the city as embodying a dreamlike model of human society in a state of perfection, while implying that the condition of realising such perfection was the moral resource of principled consensus.
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Much of the information in this paragraph comes from the Assembly Books of Great Yarmouth 1570–98 and I am indebted for it to Miss N. M. Fuidge. The episode of Mr Mayham and the Dedham ministers is recorded in the so-called Dedham classis minute book, R. G. Usher (ed.), The Presbyterian Movement in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Camden 3rd series VII (1905) pp. 43–6.
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This is argued by Peter Clark in English Provincial Society, pp. 38-44, and in his ‘Reformation and Radicalism in Kentish Towns c. 1500–1533’, in W. J. Mommsen (ed.), Stadtbürgertum und Adel in der Reformation: The Urban Classes, the Nobility and the Reformation, Publications of the German Historical Institute, London, 5 (1979) pp. 107–27.
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Collinson, P. (1988). The Protestant Town. In: The Birthpangs of Protestant England. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19584-8_2
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