Historical Sketch of the Origin and Organization (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Of The City Of New York

9780365490432: Historical Sketch of the Origin and Organization (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365490431 ISBN 13: 9780365490432

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Origin and Organization

At an early period of the Reformation the Protestants on the Continent were divided into two bodies, the Lutheran and the Reformed. The latter became dominant in the Netherlands, where they maintained their religious liberties only after a long, costly and bloody struggle against the gigantic power of Philip II., during which they suffered all that men could suffer. So calamitous was their condition before the eighty years' war that they gave themselves the name of the Church under the Cross, and their symbol was "A Lily amidst Thorns."

In 1566, while war was raging, the deputies of the churches met in Antwerp and adopted the Belgic Confession, which continues to this day to be one of the doctrinal standards of the Reformed in Holland.

About the same time the Heidelberg Catechism, which had been issued (1563) in German by the Palatine Elector, Frederick III., was translated into Dutch and widely circulated in the Netherlands.

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