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Excerpt: ...and Remonstrants as one-tenth the value of the civil authority and its right to make laws and ordinances regulating ecclesiastical affairs. He believed the great bulwark of th… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...and Remonstrants as one-tenth the value of the civil authority and its right to make laws and ordinances regulating ecclesiastical affairs. He believed the great bulwark of the independence of the country to be the Reformed Church, and his efforts had ever been to strengthen that bulwark by preventing the unnecessary schism which might prove its ruin. Many questions of property, too, were involved in the question-the church buildings, lands and pastures belonging to the Counts of Holland and their successors-the States having always exercised the right of church patronage-''jus patronatus''-a privilege which, as well as inherited or purchased advowsons, had been of late flagrantly interfered with. He was asked if he had not said that it had never been the intention of the States-General to carry on the war for this or that religion. He replied that he had told certain clergymen expressing to him their opinion that the war had been waged solely for the furtherance of their especial shade of belief, that in his view the war had been undertaken for the conservation of the liberties and laws of the land, and of its good people. Of that freedom the first and foremost point was the true Christian religion and liberty of conscience and opinion. There must be religion in the Republic, he had said, but that the war was carried on to sustain the opinion of one doctor of divinity or another on-differential points was something he had never heard of and could never believe. The good citizens of the country had as much right to hold by Melancthon as by Calvin or Beza. He knew that the first proclamations in regard to the war declared it to be undertaken for freedom of conscience, and so to his, own knowledge it had been always carried on. He was asked if he had not promised during the Truce negotiations so to direct matters that the Catholics with time might obtain public exercise of their religion. He replied that this was a notorious falsehood and... John Lothrop Motley, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life And Death Of John Of Barneveld, Advocate Of Holland; With A View Of The Primary Causes And Movements Of The Thirty Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153637756

Excerpt: ...and Remonstrants as one-tenth the value of the civil authority and its right to make laws and ordinances regulating ecclesiastical affairs. He believed the great bulwark of th… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...and Remonstrants as one-tenth the value of the civil authority and its right to make laws and ordinances regulating ecclesiastical affairs. He believed the great bulwark of the independence of the country to be the Reformed Church, and his efforts had ever been to strengthen that bulwark by preventing the unnecessary schism which might prove its ruin. Many questions of property, too, were involved in the question-the church buildings, lands and pastures belonging to the Counts of Holland and their successors-the States having always exercised the right of church patronage-''jus patronatus''-a privilege which, as well as inherited or purchased advowsons, had been of late flagrantly interfered with. He was asked if he had not said that it had never been the intention of the States-General to carry on the war for this or that religion. He replied that he had told certain clergymen expressing to him their opinion that the war had been waged solely for the furtherance of their especial shade of belief, that in his view the war had been undertaken for the conservation of the liberties and laws of the land, and of its good people. Of that freedom the first and foremost point was the true Christian religion and liberty of conscience and opinion. There must be religion in the Republic, he had said, but that the war was carried on to sustain the opinion of one doctor of divinity or another on-differential points was something he had never heard of and could never believe. The good citizens of the country had as much right to hold by Melancthon as by Calvin or Beza. He knew that the first proclamations in regard to the war declared it to be undertaken for freedom of conscience, and so to his, own knowledge it had been always carried on. He was asked if he had not promised during the Truce negotiations so to direct matters that the Catholics with time might obtain public exercise of their religion. He replied that this was a notorious falsehood and... John Lothrop Motley, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life And Death Of John Of Barneveld, Advocate Of Holland; With A View Of The Primary Causes And Movements Of The Thirty Books>Biography and Memoir <

ISBN: 9781153637756

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War 1618 Paperback New Books, General Books