Nodige bedenkingen op de niewe beweegingen, onlangs verwekt door den circulairen brief en andere middelen, tegen den auteur van 't boek de betoverde weereld

"Assembly, made known by the Reverend President original: "D. Preſes", who has submitted himself to this Cenſure censure; a formal ecclesiastical reprimand or punishment.
"Also, their Honorable Great Worships the Burgermeeſteren Burgomasters; the chief magistrates or mayors of a city have expressed their approval of the proceedings of the Honorable Claſſis Classis; a regional governing body of the Reformed Church in this matter with Reverend Bekker."

Now I ask the modest reader whether the Classis is to blame for not having concluded this matter within those two months according to the instruction of the Synodus Synod; a high-level assembly of church delegates? When one has done all they could do, what more shall they do? But these people, who wanted to push further with me, should have granted the Classis even more time to do even more. If one wishes to punish someone more severely than the case requires, as far as has been shown, then one must also investigate further and see if they have committed even more offenses than have been revealed thus far; for that, more time is also necessary. Moreover, the Classis was to regard that lesson from the Synod to complete it within two months not as a command, but as an exhortation. The Classis was naturally entitled to handle and conclude this case, it having been brought to them from the Kerkenraad Church Council; the local governing body of a specific congregation. This was so clearly understood by the Synod that they themselves did not wish to take the work out of the hands of the Church Council; but commanded the continuation to those who had begun it; and nevertheless desired that not the Church Council, but indeed the Classis, should further conclude the case finalik finally or conclusively. And so that the Synod would have no new trouble in another year, they wished to remain present with the Classis, after they had already had a hand in the work; and this through four Gecommitteerden Commissioners; representatives appointed to a specific task, who could afterwards report to them by their own mouths and from their findings of the facts how the entire transaction had ended.

But they now wish to say that those four Gedeputeerden Deputies; synonym for Commissioners in this context were not present at the final handling by the Classis. Why not? Did the Classis not want them there? On the contrary: for I myself have seen that they were explicitly summoned for that purpose. But their written answer was that the time had expired, and they had already taken their leave from the Classis the last time ...