Synod of Dort Part 4: Revolution in the Netherlands

After so many years of persecution, men from the Calvinists, Anabaptists, and other Protestant branches decided to begin to fight back. They had appealed to Philip II with the plea that included the Belgic Confession to stop the persecution, but he hadn’t listened. It looked like the Reformation might be wiped out of the Netherlands if the people didn’t fight back. In 1566, groups of the more militant of these men attacked Catholic churches and destroyed the images of saints and the crucifix in...