children out of Christendom and to have two sets of people, the one baptized and the other unbaptized.…”1 The second basic conviction which united the Radical Reformation in opposition to the Magisterial Reformers went far deeper than mere dissatisfaction with the pace and extent of reform. The Radical Reformers rejected root and branch the territorial conception of the Church. To their mind the Church is a covenanted community of converted men and women who are pledged and active disciples of Christ.
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