He called for the register-books of the States of Holland, and turning back to the pages on which was recorded his accession to the stadholderate soon after his father's murder, ordered the oath then exchanged between himself and the States to be read aloud.
That oath bound them mutually to support the Reformed religion till the last drop of blood in their veins.
"That oath I mean to keep," said the Stadholder, "so long as I live." No one disputed the obligation of all parties to maintain the Reformed religion.

But the question was whether the Five Points were inconsistent with the Reformed religion.

The contrary was clamorously maintained by most of those present: In the year 1586 this difference in dogma had not arisen, and as the large majority of the people at the Hague, including nearly all those of rank and substance, were of the Remonstrant persuasion, they naturally found it not agreeable to be sent out of the church by a small minority.

But Maurice chose to settle the question very summarily.

His father had been raised to power by the strict Calvinists, and he meant to stand by those who had always sustained William the Silent.