The Covenant Doctrine of the “Fathers of the Secession” (4)

Controversy over the Covenant (concl.) Simon Van Velzen was not the only minister in the churches of the Secession in the Netherlands of 1834 to oppose the new covenant doctrine of Pieters and Kreulen. A younger colleague, who had embraced the doctrine of the covenant of the "fathers of the Secession" and was zealous for the gospel of grace, also condemned Pieters and Kreulen's covenant doctrine as heretical. He was H. Joffers, minister of the Christian Separated [Dutch: Afgescheidene]...