CHAPTER II
MENNONITE CONFESSION OF FAITH
The first account we have of a Confession of Faith issued by Mennonites was on April 21, 1632, at the time of a peace convention held at Dort in Holland. This was signed by fifty-one ministers and teachers representing sixteen cities and towns of Holland, Lower Germany, the Palatinate and the upper country of the Rhine Valley in the following order:
DORT
- Isaac Koenig
- Johann Cobryssen
- Jan Jacobs
- Jacuis Terwin
- Claes Dirksen
- Mels Gysbaerts
- Adrian Cornelis
ROTTERDAM
- Balden C. Schumacher
- Michael Michiels
- Israel von Halmael
- Heinrich Apeldoren
- Andreas Lucken
UTRECHT
- Herman Segers
- Jan Heinrich Hochfeld
- Daniel Horens
- Abraham Spronk
- Wilhelm von Brockhuysen
THE UPPER COUNTRY
- Peter von Borsel
- Anton Hans
FLISSINGEN
- Dillaert Willeborts
- Jacob Pennen
- Lieren Marymehr
MIDDLEBURG
- Bastian Willemsen
- Jan Winkelmans
HARLEM
- John Doom
- Peter Gryspeer
- Dirk Wouters Kolenhamp
- Peter Joosten
SCHIEDAM
- Cornelis Bam
- Lambrecht Paeldink
CREVELDT
- Wilhelm Kreynen
- Herman Op den Graff
GORCUM
- Jacob von Sebrecht
- Jan J. von Kruysen
ARNHEIM
- Cornelis Jans
- Dirk Renderson
AMSTERDAM
- Tobias Goverts
- Peter Jansen Mayer
- Abram Dirks
- David Ter Haer
- Peter Jan von Zingel
BOMMEL
- Wilhelm Jan von Exselt
- Gispert Spiering
