History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . me folio, containingfacsimiles. These Dutch records thus compiled, with Eng-lish signatures and translations, through the generosity of aDutch banker, were distributed to the American delegatesat Leyden, in September, 1920. When William I, Prince of Orange, surnamed TheSilent,* took the reins of government in the Netherlands in1576, Calvinism was established. Though his life went outa few years before Scrooby Pilgrims reached Holland, thework he did for the cause lived after him. While Englandwas o
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . me folio, containingfacsimiles. These Dutch records thus compiled, with Eng-lish signatures and translations, through the generosity of aDutch banker, were distributed to the American delegatesat Leyden, in September, 1920. When William I, Prince of Orange, surnamed TheSilent,* took the reins of government in the Netherlands in1576, Calvinism was established. Though his life went outa few years before Scrooby Pilgrims reached Holland, thework he did for the cause lived after him. While Englandwas one vast seed bed of sprouting religious wars, that meantto hundreds flaming death, Holland, having in a measurebeen through the fire, quieted down to wordy discussion and * William the Silent, possibly so called because, overhearing a plot to massacrehis countrjmen, he only spoke to save. Or was it that reason occasionally given,that he was only silent in death? This popular title is a posthumous one. THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 167 oo CO O W WO o I—I H a>w n a. i68 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS an occasional stone and bludgeon argument between Calvin-ist and non-Calvinist, and followers of Gomar, Arminius,and Episcopus. A strenuous upbringing had William the Silent, chang-ing at first, al-most as a matterof course, withhis parentsfrom Roman-ism to Luther-anism. In hismature mindand manhood,he adopted,from sincereconviction, theCalvinistic in-terpretation ofDivine law andgrace, with alli t s democratici m p 1 i the Si-lent could neverunderstand whyChristians o fany and everyname could notlive together asbrethren. I nspite of his bestfriends and col-leagues, this man called Pater Patriae (Father of his Coun-try), made the Federal Republic of seven states a refugefor all sects. He was the moderate man of the sixteenthcentury. Williams swift outgoing was on July lo, 1584, the
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