Belgic Confession

The Confession of Faith, popularly known as the Belgic Confession, is a doctrinal standard document to which many Reformed churches subscribe. The Confession forms part of the Three Forms of Unity of the Reformed Church, (Horton 2011, p. 1002) which are also the official subordinate standards of the Dutch Reformed Church (Cochrane 2003, p. 187; Latourette & Winter 1975, p. 764). The confession's chief author was Guido de Brès, a preacher of the Reformed churches of the Netherlands, who died a martyr to the faith in 1567, during the Dutch Reformation (Cochrane 2003, p. 185). De Brès first wrote the Belgic Confession in 1559 (Bangs 1998, pp. 100-101).