The American
Church History Series

CONSISTING OF A SERIES OF

DENOMINATIONAL HISTORIES PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY

General Editors

REV. PHILIP SCHAFF, D. D., LL. D.

RT. REV. H. C. POTTER, D. D., LL. D.
REV. GEO. P. FISHER, D. D., LL. D.

BISHOP JOHN F. Hurst, D. D., LL. D.
Rev. E. J. WOLF, D. D.
HENRY C. VEDder, M. A.

REV. SAMUEL M. JACKSON, D. D., LL. D.

VOLUME VIII

CONTENTS.

THE REFORMED CHURCH, DUTCH.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

INTRODUCTION.—Origin of the Reformed Church.—Doctrine and Polity.
-Separation from the Lutheran Church.-History of the Reformed
Church in Switzerland, Germany, France, and the Netherlands.-
Brotherhood of the Common Life.—Anabaptists.—Martyrs and Ex-
iles.-Deliverance.-Liturgies, Creeds, and Polity.-Early Synods.
-The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort.—The Post-
Acta.-Later History...

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PERIOD I.

THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA-COLONIZATION (1614-64).

CHAP. I.—TRANSPLANTING the Reformed Church TO AMERICA.—

The Reformed Church Colony in New Netherland.—The West India

Company.—The Walloons.—Civil Government of the Colony.-Re-

ligion in the Colony.—Ministry of Michaelius.—The Church and the

Company.-Ministry of Bogardus.-English Settlers.-Ministry of

Megapolensis.-Father Jogues's Description of New Netherland.

-Peter Stuyvesant.-Ministries of Drisius and Polhemus.-Perse-

cution of the Lutherans.-Growth of the Church.-Persecution of

Quakers.-Sabbath and Anti-liquor Laws.-Ministry of Selyns.—

Catechetical Ordinance.-Conquest by the English.-Early Minis-

ters and Churches.-Dutch Jurisprudence..

PERIOD II.

RELATION OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN PARTICULAR, AND OF

THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK IN GENERAL, TO ENGLISH

ECCLESIASTICAL LAWS (1664–1708).

CHAP. II. THE GOVERNMENT OF JAMES AS DUKE (1664-85) AND

KING (1685-89).—Relations of the American Dutch Church to

Great Britain and to the Church of Holland.-The First Decade

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under English Rule.—The Duke's Laws.-Conciliatory Policy.-

Reconquest of New York by the Dutch, and its Resurrender by the

States-General.-Struggle against a Church Establishment Repre
senting a Minority.—Case of Van Rensselaer.—First Dutch Ordina-
tion.-Demand for an Assembly,—Domine Selyns.-The Hugue-
nots.-The Charter of Liberties.-Ministry of Dellius.-Repeal of
the Charter of Liberties.--King James's Instructions to Governor
Dongan.-Character of James's Toleration.-Negro Baptisms.—
Dongan's Report on the State of the Province.-Instructions to An-
dros.-Deposition of James and Accession of William and Mary.-
The Leisler Troubles.—Persecution of the Ministers.-Vindication
of Leisler.-Burning of Schenectady and Death of Tesschenmacker 63

CHAP. III-WILLIAM III. (1688-1702).—Instructions to Governors

Sloughter and Fletcher.-Efforts to Secure a Ministry Act, and

their Failure.-The Ministry Act.-Colonel Morris's Account of

the Ministry Act.—The Assembly's Explanation of it.—Rev. John

Miller's View of New York and its Necessities.—Statistics in

1695.—Efforts of the Church of New York to Obtain a Charter.—

The Charter.—The Huguenots.—Charter of Trinity Church.-The

King's Farm.-Christian Courtesy.-Bellomont's Views of the

Ministry Act and the Charters.-Bill for a Dissenting Ministry.—

Amendments to the Ministry Act.-Its Inoperative Character.—

Legal Parity of all Denominations.-Settlements of the Dutch in

New Jersey...

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PERIOD III.

STRUGGLE FOR ECCLESIASTICAL INDEPENDENCE (1707-92).

CHAP. IV. REVIVAL, AND BEGINNINGS Of Organization-Seces-

SION AND STRIFE (1707-71).—The Generation Preceding the Coetus.

-Ordinations.—The Great Awakening.-The Palatines.-Request

for a Coctus, and Plans for the Same.-Delay.-The Coetus Al-

lowed.—Its Inefficiency.—Plans for an American Cl`ssis.—Desires

for a College in New York.-Opposition of William Livingston to

a Sectarian College.-Secession from the Coetus.-Petition of the

Church of New York for a Professorship of Divinity in the Proposed

College. The College Chartered without Said Professorship.-

Frelinghuysen's Effort for a Dutch College.-Dilemma of Domine

Ritzema and of King's College.-The Compromise.—Assumption

of Ecclesiastical Independence by the Coetus.-Their Commission

to Frelinghuysen.-Ritzema Censured.-The Disruption of the

Church, and its Sad Consequences.-Charter Obtained for a Col-

lege in New Jersey.

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