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<em>Algemeene Belydenissen </em>is a booklet published in 1665 by Pieter Arentsz in [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], reprinted in [[Haarlem (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Haarlem]] in 1700 and at [[Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Rotterdam]] in 1739. The complete title is <em>De Algemeene Belydenissen der Vereenighde Vlaemsche, Vriesche en Hooghduytsche Doopgesinde Gemeynte Gods, waer op van haer de Geestelijcke Ghemeynschap aen de eens-geloovige Doops-gesinde aengeboden in Christelifcke Vrede op verscheyde tijden, met verscheyde Volcken gemaecht en bevestight is.</em>

Following the introduction <em>(Aen den Leser, </em>signed Amsterdam, 21 September 1665, by [[Wijngaard, Tobias Govertsen van den (1587-1669)|Tobias Govertsz van den Wyngaert]] and Isaack van Vreden), the booklet presents the following six confessions of faith: <em>Concept van Ceulen; Van den Eenigen Godt, Vader, Soon ende Heyligen Geest, En van de Mensch-werdinge des Soons Godts </em>(the confession of Outerman); <em>Olyf-tacx; Confessie der Vereenighde Vriesen ende Hooghduytschen; De Artickelen des Christelijcken Geloofs </em>(the [[Dordrecht Confession of Faith (Mennonite, 1632)|Dordrecht Confession]]). The Amsterdam copy adds, with separate pagination and signature, the <em>Oprecht Verbündt van Eenigheydt.</em>

Shortly before the split between the [[Lamists|Lamists]] and [[Zonists|Zonists]] in Amsterdam, the wish had been expressed in June 1660 at a conference of conservative leaders at [[Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Leiden]], to have a new and general edition of the accepted confessions of faith published. After the <em>Lammerenhrijg, </em>when the conservative congregations united among themselves as the Zonists, the wish was carried out. In the first place, says the Foreword, in order to show that "we are still standing unchanged in the teaching of the Gospel, accepted by our forefathers"; in the second place, in order to make the basis of the Zonists known; and in the third place, because some confessions have been sold out and are no longer obtainable.

The third edition of the booklet (1739 at Rotterdam) was published by I.P.S. ([[Schabaelje, Jan Philipsz (Philipsen) (ca. 1585-1656)|Jan Philipsz Schabaelje]]),who added: <em>de Principale Artykelen des Geloofseeniger Doopsgez. Gemeente, die men noemt Waterlanders, Vlamingen en Duitschen, getrokken uit haar uit gegevene Confessien. </em>A second edition had appeared at Haarlem in 1700.
= Bibliography =
<em>Catalogus der werken over de Doopsgezinden en hunne geschiedenis aanwezig in de bibliotheek der Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam</em>. Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1919: 169-171.
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