Inhoudsopgave

I Founding and Subsequent Difficulties. The First Years of the Community.- Dutch refugees in England.- Joh. à Lasco and Utenhove.- the Charter of King Edward VI.- Austin Friars.- the books of instruction and the service books of the Community.- Utenhove’s rhymed version of the Psalms.- First difficulties, Queen Mary.- wanderings by the Community.- Emden.- church officials and liturgy.- II Internal and External Strength. Safeguarding of Doctrine.- Return and restoration of the Community.- changed position.- support to the Church in the home country.- maintenance of doctrine.- the affair Velsius.- the affair Van Haemstede.- the affair Van Winghen.- action against unsound doctrines.- diminishing insistence on doctrine.- opposition against the putting to death of heretics.- training of ministers.- III Maintenance of Moral Discipline. Philanthropic and Social Activities.- Need for moral discipline.- extensive measures towards this end.- the moral condition of the Community.- social-pastoral care of the Community.- help for persecuted Protestants on the Continent.- changing needs.- care of the poor by the deacons.- measures for assisting theological students.- IV The Relations with other Reformed Churches in the Low Countries and in England.- Initial great importance, subsequently diminishing for the Churches in the Netherlands.- difficulties in the domain of organization, opposition on the part of England 91 the Synod of Dordrecht.- lasting personal contacts.- relations with the French Community, claims by them on the church building.- all the same good relations.- other Dutch Reformed Communities in England.- later settlements, Hatfield Chase.- the Colloquia, initial thriving, subsequent decay.- V The Relation to Church and State. The Struggle with Archbishop Laud.-Political relations, opposition on the part of population and guilds, protection by the government.- unaccommodating attitude of James I, imposition of fine.- involved in the struggle between King and Parliament, favourable conditions during the Commonwealth.- relations with the ecclesiastical authorities, judicious attitude towards the State Church.- the relations with the superintendents.- anti-puritanical tendencies.- Archbishop Laud.- opposition by the Dutch-French synod.- Laud’s stubborness, his fall, relief for the Community.- VI The Community in the 17th and 18th Centuries.- Dangers from Puritanism and Independentism during the Commonwealth.- the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution.- internal difficulties: the Rev. Van Cuilemborgh, the Rev. Ten Harmsen.- harmonious relations within the Consistory.- the Rev. Ruytinck, relations with Duraeus.- increasing liberty in religious teaching, process of secularization.- the Community languishes.- tale of woe of the organ.- the library and the archives, Hessels’s Archivum.- VII The Vicissitudes of the Church Building. The Community in the 19th and 20th Centuries.- Description of the church and its interior, difficulties in connection with the tower.- acquisition of the churchyard.- difficulties with tenants and neighbours.- the fire of 1862.- the Community’s properties and their management.- growing prestige, relation to the Netherlands Royal House.- the Rev. Adama van Scheltema, unorthodox orientation of the Community.- the Rev. Baart de 1a Faille, social activities.- the Rev. Van Dorp, the second world war.- the destruction of the church building.- possibilities for the future, relations with South Africa.- I. The Charter of King Edward VI.- II. List of the ministers of the Church.- Appendices.- List of thePictures.- I. Facsimile of the Charter.- II. Austin Friars and its surroundings in the 16th century.- III. Western front and entrance of the old churc.- IV. The interior of the old church about the middle of the 19th century.- V. The interior of the restored old church.- VI. The interior of the church of St. Mary.

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