The miscellaneous pieces of artillery and other fire-arms lying about, with piles of cannon-ball which there had not been time to remove, were hardly less belligerent and threatening of aspect than the stern faces of the crowd occupied in thoroughly preparing the house for its solemn destination.

It was determined that there should be accommodation on the next Sunday for all who came to the service.

An army of carpenters, joiners, glaziers, and other workmen-assisted by a mob of citizens of all ranks and ages, men and women, gentle and simple were busily engaged in bringing planks and benches; working with plane, adze, hammer and saw, trowel and shovel, to complete the work.
On the next Sunday the Prince attended public worship for the last time at the Great Church under the ministration of Uytenbogaert.

He was infuriated with the sermon, in which the bold Remonstrant bitterly inveighed against the proposition for a National Synod.

To oppose that measure publicly in the very face of the Stadholder, who now considered himself as the Synod personified, seemed to him flat blasphemy.