Some Puritans began to insist, in terms perhaps familiar enough to us today but out-of-step with the early Protestant Reformers, that the Bible only was the standard for liturgy and church government, and any church that failed to radically reform itself in conformity to Scripture alone was not worthy of the name of church. Some conformists began to insist, for their part, that anyone who questioned the established order of the Church of England must be hell-bent on overthrowing it, perhaps even by force, and thus might be as good as traitors to the Crown.
