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Christian de Kopink

Jan Weyns

Claes Claesson

Peter Peterson

Anton Cornelis

Peter Jan Zimmerman

Cornelis de Moir

Isaac Claes

Twenty-eight years after—February 4, 1660—thirteen ministers and elders met at Ohnenheim, Alsace, and after examination found this Confession founded on the Word of God, and adopted it entirely as their own, and in testimony signed with their own hands as follows:

John Miller

Henry Schneider

Ulrich Husser

Jacob Gochnauer

John Ringer

Rudolph Egli

John Rudolph Bumen

Henry Frick

Jacob Schelbly

Adolph Schmidt

Jacob Schmidt

Bertram Habich

Jacob Schneider

These declarations in the form of a Confession of Faith were printed in the Dutch language of Holland in the year 1660 in The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror by Thielman J. Van Braght. In the year 1748 it was translated into German directed by Heinrich Funck and Dielman Kolb at Ephrata, Pa.

In 1837 the long Confession of Faith of 33 Articles was translated into English and published by Peter Burkholder of Virginia. It was also translated into English in 1859 at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, by a committee, representing the Mennonite