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Joel Beeke, an expert on Puritan Reformed books, writes,
"The 'Nadere Reformatie' is the Dutch counterpart to English Puritanism. The link between those movements is strong, historically and theologically. Keith Sprunger has shown that during the seventeenth century tens of thousands of Anglo-Scottish believers of Puritan persuasion lived in the Netherlands. Those believers represented about forty congregations and 350 ministers. The Dutch government allowed the believers to organize churches and form an English classis within the Dutch Reformed Church. Cornelis Pronk notes that the presence of so many English and Scottish Puritans was bound to have some influence upon the Dutch churches. 'Many Dutch Reformed ministers were impressed by the practical divinity of the English Puritans,' Pronk says. 'They saw it as a healthy corrective to the dry intellectualistic sermonizing that was becoming the trend in their churches.'
The divines of English Puritanism and the 'Nadere Reformatie' respected each other. They enriched each other through personal contact and their writings, both their Latin treatises and the many books translated from English into Dutch. More Reformed theological books were printed in the seventeenth century in the Netherlands than in all other countries combined."
That quote is from Joel R. Beeke in his book "Puritan Reformed Spirituality: A Practical Theological Study From Our Reformed and Puritan Heritage," page 291.
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