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Confessional Identity in Early Stuart England

The “Prayer Book Puritanism” of Elizabeth Isham

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ID10066942
AuthorsIsaac Stephens (0000-0001-7409-241X, Dalhousie University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume50
Issue1
Pages24-47
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of British Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/656675
OpenAlexW2323200679
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited20

Let me leave upon Record to the shame of England; That all this is not meerly through idleness, because they will not be at the pains to serve God, but it is out of a bitter enmity to his Word and wayes; for they will be at more pains then this in any way that is evil, or in any worship of mans devising: They are as zealous for Crosses, and Surplices, Processions and Perambulations, reading of a Gospel at a cross way, the observation of Holidays, and Fasting days, the repeating of the Letany, or the like forms in the Common Prayer [Book]. 1 I n his pointed critique, Richard Baxter presaged conventional historical wis- dom-Puritans were intensely hostile to the Book of Common Prayer. Of course, there is considerable evidence to warrant such a conclusion. Two early fathers of the Puritan community, John Field and Thomas Wilcox, proved uncomplimentary in 1572: "We must nedes say as foloweth, that this [Prayer] boke is an unperfect boke, culled and picked out of that popishe dunghil, the

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,47
Citation span2011 - 2026 (16)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5

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