ABSTRACT
In various agreements and public covenants, the liberty or even the preservation of the papal religion was promised, as is apparent from various decrees of the states and instruments of the covenants published in quarto in the French language in Munster in 1647. Hence, the Catholics infer that the exercise of their religion was prohibited up till now in violation of a given promise by the decrees of the states general and the provincial states. The Dutch Revolt was started and waged not for the reformed religion, but for political freedom and freedom of religion, that is, of the reformed and Catholic religion and even, in the interpretation of some people, of some sects. The Saduccees were a Jewish sect which is believed to have become extinct some time after the destruction of Herod’s Temple 70 CE and Samaritans are a Jewish ethnoreligious minority.
