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The history of the struggle of the Secession churches over issues of church polity underscores the importance of biblical church government. Without question, this is one of the monuments of the Secession, that it restored to the Dutch Reformed churches proper church government. This is part of the
Essential to serving Christ is faithfulness to His Word. As at Wesel, so the Synod of Emden recognized that church unity is doctrinal unity. So the Synod required that all ministers express agreement with the Belgic Confession of Faith, as well as the French Confession in the French-speaking churc
Even as regards those relatively few regulations that derive from Scripture neither directly nor indirectly but are common sense rules for orderly life, adapted to the local situation at a certain time, one should not too quickly conclude that the regulations have nothing to do with the will of Chri
Calvin formulated an early church order entitled the "Ecclesiastical Ordinances," which was the foundation of the whole organization and discipline of the church of Geneva, and which was adopted on November 20, 1541, scarcely more than two months after Calvin's return from exile to Geneva. A copy of
As mentioned in their introduction, the church leaders who gathered at Wezel did not formulate these regulations on their own, but "consulted with the best reformed churches." Notably, they consulted the church order that John Calvin had written for Geneva, entitled Ecclesiastical Ordinances. It is
One of the issues that plagued the churches of the Afscheiding was whether or not to use the Church Order of Dordt. The Synod of Dordt not only produced the Canons but also wrote a church order. Van Velzen and his fellow reformers wanted to return not only to the doctrines of Dordt but also to the p
The Staten-Bijbel remains to this day a monument of Reformed biblical scholarship. Although more recent versions have to a great extent supplanted the Staten-Bijbel, still today there are many Dutch Reformed Christians who continue to use and cherish it. The principle upon which the Staten-Bijbel wa
The Canons of Dordt (1619) is the third of the three confessions in the Three Forms of Unity. It was formulated at the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) in response to the rise, in the Dutch churches, of doctrines which were heretical and which contradicted the earlier confessions of the church, the Belgic
There are several remarks which we wish to make by way of conclusion of this section of the history of the Church from “Dordt to Today”. 1) The Synod of Dordt also disciplined the Arminian ministers who refused to subscribe to the Canons. Some 200 ministers were deposed from office in the Dutch Chur