JETS 52:3 (September 2009) p. 573 allegiance and supremacy be imposed on anyone joining the Established Church. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the political and social tensions at play, this requirement resulted in a complete drying up of Catholic conversions, as religious faith became conflated and confused with political allegiance. Just as unsurprising was Darby’s response. He was appalled and angered at this disastrous manifestation of the Erastian union of Church and State that was the present