y attribute of a church, then they would not have been able to defend the remaining English churches, which they admitted lacked the power of discipline. By laying importance of faith, even though they did not even pretend that all or even most members of the Anglican Church had faith, they could claim a greater devotion to faith than the Separatists. And however deceptive the claim may have been, it was sufficiently dispiriting to the Separatists.
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