External pressure kept down theological passion, and there were as yet few symptoms of schism in the dominant church.

But there was to come a time when the struggle between church and government was to break forth with an intensity and to rage to an extent which no man at that moment could imagine.
Towards the end of the century Henry IV.

made peace with Spain.

It was a trying moment for the Provinces.

Barneveld was again sent forth on an embassy to the King.