Our Church Order

Among the Ministers of the Word equality shall be maintained with respect to the duties of their office and also in other matters as far as possible according to the judgment of the Consistory, and if necessary, of the Classis; which equality shall also be maintained in the case of the Elders and Deacons. This article in its present form was drafted and first adopted by the Synod of Middelburg, 1581. What the occasion of this action was is not certain. It may have been the attempt of churchmen...