"In each [pastorate to which Abraham Kuyper] went, he became progressively more concerned about the state in which he found the church. The church was filled, he found, with doctrinal laxity, indeed with unbelief itself, and with a lack of discipline. And Kuyper came to conclude... we must rebuild or move out. He said, we cannot compromise with unbelief in the Church forever. And Kuyper set about then faithfully to reform the Church from the inside. He worked at seeing orthodoxy built up, and discipline re-established."
Lecture on Kuyper by Robert Godfrey
In 1866 he left the state church after it suspended his consistory for requiring for membership a profession of belief in Jesus according to the Scriptures.
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