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Contributor: Leon Howard
The Augustan Reprint Society
With an Introduction by Leon Howard
Publication Number 38
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1953
GENERAL EDITORS
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ADVISORY EDITORS
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
INTRODUCTION
On the other hand, the church specifically identified as the scene of the weekday service was St. Mary's Aldermanbury, and its minister was the Reverend Edmund Calamy, whose inclinations were Presbyterian and whose personally conducted fastday services were notoriously popular. Although Calamy's custom of preaching from the desk rather than from the pulpit makes it unlikely that he was the minister satirized in the early part of the poem, he would normally have been identified as the object of Phillips' most severe and scandalous attack; and the device of having him refer to "the Laud" instead of the Lord may have had reference to the rumors of early conformity which still haunted Calamy despite his service to the Puritan cause as one of the Smectymnuans and a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. There is no evidence, however, that Presbyterianism as a particular nonconformist sect stirred Phillips to any special antagonism.
Leon Howard University of California, Los Angeles
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