ABSTRACT
The political narrative included in Another Alarum of War, the tract published after the execution of the King, is coherent with the principles stated in A Vision. The accusation of idolatry had been reiterated on many occasions since the beginning of the English Reformation to the Revolution. In his study of iconoclasm, Ernest B. Gilman Henry singles out the Nonconformist view of the early seventeenth-century scholar and clergyman Henry Ainsworth, and argues that, because of his post-lapsarian tendency to sin, man's "inmost affections are most deeply and continually infected with this vice, and addicted to it", since he constantly tries to imagine new gods according to his own capacity. Elizabeth Poole's approach to idolatry is consistent with this perspective. Poole attributes the cause of the regicide to the sin that the Protestant tradition had always seen as the root cause of idolatry: pride.
