remonstrant

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• Remonstrants spent considerable time demonstrating that in earlier years the Reformed Church had been a place where a variety of views, theirs especially, had been welcome.

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• Moreover, King James pressured the States General to convene a so-called National Synod to settle the disputes between the Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants, settling them in favor of the Contra-Remonstrants.

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• The Remonstrants were not worthy of the name "Reformed."

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• In their colony, the Pilgrims adopted anti-dogmatic positions first worked out by Remonstrants.

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• Remonstrants in Leiden, deprived of resident clergy, held secret meetings in a village not far away, Warmond.

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• As an alternative to one-sided granting of limited rights of existence, mutual toleration toward Reformed and other groups was proposed by Dutch Mennonites and Remonstrants.

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• Similar collegiant meetings were held in Amsterdam and elsewhere, usually attracting a mix of Remonstrants and Mennonites, as well as Spinoza and some people whose affiliation, if any, is unknown.

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• Additionally, in the Postscriptum, Locke adds a general definition of the words "heresy" and "schism" to support the Remonstrant claim that they were neither heretical nor schismatic.

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• Mennonites and Remonstrants were, however, among the dissenters the Reformed wanted to suppress, so their offer to tolerate the Reformed was considered effrontery.

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• Moreover, King James pressured the States General to convene a so-called National Synod to settle the disputes between the Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants, settling them in favor of the Contra-Remonstrants.

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