Biblical Repertory Author:Peter Walker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: holy document still remains to prove, at some future period, as we hope and pray, a lamp to their feet. With an orthodox creed, orthodox prayers, and orthodox hy... more »mns, we cannot hut believe that multitudes believe and are saved, in spite of the God-denying apostacy of teachers and preachers. Art. II.— The Religious Condition of Holland. There are few Presbyterians who have not frequently made anxious inquiry respecting the present condition of the Reformed Churches in Holland. Indebted, as we are, to this country for some of our most valuable theological works, and remembering, as we cannot but do, the noble stand which was there made against the encroachments of Arminianism, we are scarcely able to repress the solicitude of friendship, or the earnest question, whether sound theology and evangelical religion have survived the shock of war, or the more dangerous assaults of continental rationalism. Holland has been too much overlooked by American travellers. The more attractive churches of Germany and France have been amply described to us, while we have remained in total ignorance touching those of a country, which could once boast of a ministry inferior to none on earth in learning and piety. It is-with more than ordinary satisfaction, therefore, that 'we proceed to furnish some details upon this interesting topic. We make a general acknowledgment of our obligation to Professor Hengstenberg's Journal, and proceed to cull such state ments of the religious and ecclesiastical condition of Holland, as promise to be useful. We have also met with some highly inte resting notices, of a more recent date, in the Edinburgh Presbyterian Review, a work lately established, which is worthy of the reputation of the church and city from which it issues. From this we have selected a number of...« less