The representatives of Puritans and of Anglicans were now alike exiled, poor, homeless, without any abiding city.

That they should instantly quarrel with each other over their prayer book (that which Knox had helped to correct) was, as Calvin told them, "extremely absurd." Each faction probably foresaw--certainly Knox's party foresaw--that, in the English congregation at Frankfort, a little flock barely tolerated, was to be settled the character of Protestantism in England, if ever England returned to Protestantism.

"This evil" (the acceptance of the English Second Book of Prayer of Edward VI.) "shall in time be established.

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and never be redressed, neither shall there for ever be an end of this controversy in England," wrote Knox's party to the Senate of Frankfort.
The religious disruption in England was, in fact, incurable, but so it would have been had the Knoxians prevailed in Frankfort.