Calvinist ministers went out towards business to transform non-Christians, yet infidels also produced their way on the cities and cities of Dutch Republic. Pagan and Muslim men and women who’d transformed into – and then backslid out-of – Calvinism occupied pastoral records comprehend at the chapel group meetings along the Netherlands. Hindu and you can Buddhist photographs, the same as men and women accumulated from the dominee Visscher, crept towards interest cupboards out-of modern elites; the Amsterdam burgomaster Nicolaes Witsen had 23 idols .
