To the Church itself, the one true church represented by its elders, and deacons, and preachers, was the reply.
And to whom belonged the right of prescribing laws and ordinances of public worship, of appointing preachers, church servants, schoolmasters, sextons?
To the Holy Ghost inspiring the Class and the Synod, said the Church.
To the civil authority, said the magistrates, by which the churches are maintained, and the salaries of the ecclesiastics paid.

The states of Holland are as sovereign as the kings of England or Denmark, the electors of Saxony or Brandenburg, the magistrates of Zurich or Basel or other Swiss cantons.

"Cujus regio ejus religio." In 1590 there was a compromise under the guidance of Barneveld.

It was agreed that an appointing board should be established composed of civil functionaries and church officials in equal numbers.

Thus should the interests of religion and of education be maintained.
The compromise was successful enough during the war.