The state is not a disembodied monster residing beneath a silver dome or crimped into a manila folder in some bureaucratic jungle. No, the church and the state, as Webster so clearly points out, is a collection of persons. In reality the church cannot be separated from the state. This presumed wall of separation between church and state is a figment of someone's imagination, a thought which remains a thought and cannot become an actuality. The two are related but not synonymous.
People are a significant part of both.
In the above illustration, the church is within the state - a part of it, but not equal to it. The state includes all those who live in it, both those who are members of the church and those who are not. The church is within the state, but not identical to it. In Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut, the established state church was the Congregational. In Virginia, it was the Episcopal.