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Article: Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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Julie Spraggon. Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 318. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-895-1.
In his first Fast Day sermon preached before the House of Commons on 17 November 1640 Stephen Marshall complained "above all" about "the extreme daring, bold audaciousness of a generation of men that have adventured as much as in them lies to corrupt God's worship, that not only rejoice to see the idolatry and superstition of Rome practiced by others, but have dared ... to dress out all God's worship according to their own fancies, things too apparent to need any ...