“To the magistrates it doth appertain, not only to have regard unto the commonwealth, but also unto ecclesiastical matters, to take away and to overthrow all idolatry and false serving of God, to destroy the kingdom of antichrist and all false doctrine, to promote the glory of God and to advance the kingdom of Christ, to the cause of the word of the Gospel everywhere to be preached, and the same to maintain unto death…“

Bishop John Hooper (d. 1555)