141 November

141 November 2019 Book Reviews still today. Not only is the Belgic Con- fession the oldest of the Reformed standards, whose teaching au- thoritatively binds members and officebearers in the Protestant Reformed Churches and other Re- formed communions of churches. But it is also the confession that covers the broadest range of top- ics. All the main doctrines of the Reformed faith are systematically treated by Guido de Bres in its thirty-seven articles. De Bres, whom Engelsma identifies as “a...