--- scanbar <scanbar@prodigy.net> wrote: > I know that Moyses Symons didn't arrive on the > Mayflower but came later and was accepted as one of > them as he had joined them while in Leiden. Does > anyone know what his religious denomination he > belonged to in his native Holland before joining the > Pilgrims? > > Thank you > Barbara > scanbar@prodigy.net As part of his defense of the Robinson congregation, Winslow wrote in _Hypocrisie Unmasked_ "Yea, at this very instant, another called Moses Simonson because a child of one that was in communion with the Dutch Church at Leiden, is admitted into church fellowship at Plymouth, and his children also to baptism..." (the text of _Hypocrisie Unmasked_ is conveniently found on Caleb Jonson's website. The text there is available as a PDF file and this quotation can be found there on page 67.) http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/HypocrisyUnmasked.pdf In order to defend against the charge of separatism it was argued that while the congregation had separated from the Church of England, it maintained communion with other "true" churches--the French, Scottish, and Dutch reformed churches--and was therefore not "separatist." __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com