[8] He selected as the title of this book the opprobrious word which Calvin had used in the charge--_Harpago_, _i.e._ "Boat-hook."
[9] This MS. is in the Bibliothèque de l'Église des Remontrants in Rotterdam. I have used only the extracts given from it in Buisson and Jarrin.
[10] The main lines of Castellio's Christianity can be found in his _Dialogi quatuor_: (i.) De praedestinatione, (ii.) De electione, (iii.) De libero arbitrio, (iv.) De fide (Gouda, 1613) and in his _Scripta selecta_. (1596).
[11] For Faith see _De fide and De arts dub._ ii. 212.
[12] This idea comes out in his Preface to the Bible, in his _Moses latinus_, and in his manuscript work, _De arte dubitandi_.
[14] Under the nom-de-plume of John Theophilus, Castellio translated the _Theologia Germanica_ into Latin, and published it with an Introduction. His translation carried this "golden book" of mystical religion into very wide circulation, and became a powerful influence, especially in England, as we shall see, in reproducing a similar type of religious thought.
The Quaker William Caton, who spent the latter part of his life in Holland, cites Castellio seven times in his Tract, _The Testimony of a Cloud of Witnesses, who in their Generation have testified against that horrible Evil of Forcing of Conscience and Persecution about Matters of Religion_ (1662), and he seems very familiar with his writings. He also cites Schwenckfeld and Franck on pp. 37 and 17 respectively.
[15] Castellio's plea for toleration, _Traité des Hérétiques à savoir, si on les doit persécuter_ (Rouen, 1554), has just been reissued in attractive form in Geneva, edited by Olivet and Choisy.
COORNHERT AND THE COLLEGIANTS--A MOVEMENT FOR SPIRITUAL RELIGION IN HOLLAND
The struggle for political liberty in the Netherlands forms one of the most dramatic and impressive chapters in modern history, but the story of the long struggle in these same Provinces for the right to believe and to think according to the dictates of conscience is hardly less dramatic and impressive. Everybody knows that during the early years of the seventeenth century Holland was the one country in Europe which furnished cities of refuge for the persecuted and hunted exponents of unpopular faiths, and that the little band of Pilgrims who brought their precious seed to the new world had first preserved and nurtured it in a safe asylum among the Dutch; but the slow spiritual travail that won this soul freedom, and the brave work of spreading, on that soil, a religion of personal insight and individual experience are not so well known.[1] The growth and development of this great movement, with its numerous ramifications and differentiations, obviously cannot be told here, but one or two specimen lines of the movement will be briefly studied for the light they throw upon this general type of religion under consideration, and for their specific influence { 105} upon corresponding spiritual movements in England and America.