From Dort to Today (11): The Development of the Reformed Faith – A Time of Decline (1619-1834)

A TIME OF DECLINE (1619-1834) Since it is several months that an article appeared in this rubric on this subject, we shall have to try to pick up the thread of the story. We were discussing in general the history of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands between the end of the Synod of Dordt and the Secession of 1834. More particularly we were discussing the doctrinal developments of that period with special emphasis upon all the theological deviations which made the Secession a necessity....