Not only did they not do that, they explicitly forbid it. Probably because they were smart enough to realize that, although they may have been Christian, a theocracy of any kind would be just as bad a tyranny as the one they were escaping.
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And I'm guessing it was also a self-interested decision to prevent themselves becoming abused if their religion was no longer dominant some day. Yet another reason to just not govern religiously at all.