Many think that such is the edifying practice in England.

Pray have the kindness to send me the English Confession of the year 1572, with the corrections and alterations up to this year." But the fires were growing hotter, fanned especially by Flemish ministers, a brotherhood of whom Barneveld had an especial distrust, and who certainly felt great animosity to him.

His moderate counsels were but oil to the flames.

He was already depicted by zealots and calumniators as false to the Reformed creed.
"Be assured and assure others," he wrote again to Caron, "that in the matter of religion I am, and by God's grace shall remain, what I ever have been.

Make the same assurances as to my son-in-law and brother.