Given that I have answered your other two questions, I am
going to infer that this quote is relevant to the ongoing conflict between the
Separatists and the author's host and the way that they are trying to use religion as a
weapon with which to gain the territory that belongs to the author's host for their own
selfish motives.
The quote you have indicated therefore
seems to be related to the charges that, the author tells us elsewhere, are brought
against the host based on his religious piety. Having attacked him for his Anglicanism,
the host now strikes back against the Separatists and the way that the claims that they
are obviously bringing against him are without basis or truth. Clearly the host sees
through the plan of the Separatists and is fighting back, standing up for his own
integrity.
This quote therefore gives further evidence of
the conflict that characterised so many new groups of individuals that set out for the
"untouched" promised land of America, hoping to establish a utopia
there.
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