themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be judge between God and man. Let them be heretic, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it appertains not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.” Helwys’s book was the first of its kind in the English language. He addressed what he saw as the errors of not only the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England but also the Puritans and the Separatists. For example, he accused the Separatist leader John Robinson of being