The Confession of Faith: Her 450th Year

Happy Birthday, Confession of Faith (aka "Netherlands Confession" and "Belgic Confession") esteemed firstborn of the Reformed family's confessions. We commemorate the year of your birth -- written as you were in 1561 and soon adopted into the Reformed family by our fathers in the nether lands. In 2011, you have now lived ten times longer than your author, martyred as he was at the youthful age of 45, in part because of you. What place his martyrdom had in the providence of God to endear you to...