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From: "Howard Swain" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Dutch churches
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 14:07:42 -0800
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Hi David and all,

From: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:51 AM
Subject: [HWE] Dutch churche

> Hi Listers and aother esteemed collegues,
> Can anyone please help.
> My Family left Picardy in the 1680's and landed up in Haarlem, Netherlands.
>From there two sons came to Spitalfields in London (by 1704 at latest) . To
> help me fill in my understanding of things What were the Dutch churches like
> compared to Huguenot congregations re theology and practices.
> Any simplification of these would be a great help.

The LDS has filmed records of these churches in Haarlem:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=topicdetails&subject=348184&subject_disp=Netherlands%2C+Noord%2DHolland%2C+Haarlem+%2D+Church+records&columns=*,0,0

"Nederlands Hervormde" is Dutch Reformed
"Waals Hervormde" is Walloon Reformed.

They probably attended one of those.
The "Reformed" churches were all of Calvinist theology.
So, the "simple" view would be that they were similar.

The Synod of Dort (or Dordt) convened in 1618 established mainly points of doctrine. See:
http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/documents/canons_of_dordt.html

I think this were followed by the "establishment" Dutch Reformed churches.
I'm not sure about the Walloon Reformed.

The Puritans that settled in Massachusetts also drew on Calvinist theology.
See Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer.

Regards,
Howard


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