There must be unity of divine worship.

The territory of the Netherlands was not big enough to hold two systems of religion, two forms of Christianity, two sects of Protestantism.

It was big enough to hold seven independent and sovereign states, but would be split into fragments--resolved into chaos--should there be more than one Church or if once a schism were permitted in that Church.

Grotius was as much convinced of this as Gomarus.

And yet the 13th Article of the Union stared them all in the face, forbidding the hideous assumptions now made by the general government.