dissent. It is better, he insisted, to root out immoralities than to extirpate sects. He was among the first to call for a separation of church and state, which even the Reformation had not called for. The care of souls does not belong to the magistrate and the affairs of state is not the business of the church, he declared. He gave a definition of the church, which is echoed in Campbell’s writings: “A church, then, I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own