| It is a mark of the esteem in which William Guthrie was held that, at the meeting of their Western Synod, in 1654 the Remonstrants chose William Guthrie for their Moderator. |
| Even the government got involved, with land's advocate Johan van Oldenbarnevelt taking the side of the Remonstrants and stadtholder Maurice of Nassau their opponents. |
| They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. |
| Coomhert, the Mennonite Pieter Twisck, and the Remonstrants Simon Episcopius and Philip van Limborch. |
| Many exiled Remonstrants began to return to the Netherlands after the death of Prince Maurice in 1625 when toleration was granted to them. |
| In the end, the Synod of Dort condemned the Remonstrants for heresy and excommunicated them from the national Public Church. |
