esolution of
the States of Zeeland anent the suspension of Thomas Pots and
Bernardus Van Deinse, ministers of Vlissing, because of their
suffering or causing Jacobus Coelman to preach, together with the
Placinet (or proclamation) whereby the said Coelman is for ever
banished out of the province of Zealand, Sept. 21, 1684." Extract
out of the Registers of the Noble and Mighty Lords, the States of
Zeeland, Sept 21, 1684. It is set forth in this paper, that though
Koelman had been suspended from his office by the States of the Land
and Earldom of Zealand, in consequence of their "Resolution and
penal discharge of the 21st of September, 1674, made by reason of
his perverse opinions, and disobedience to his lawful high
superiors," he had notwithstanding "adventured and undertaken to go
about private exercises within this province and also to preach
twice publickly within the city Vliesing [Flushing] on Sabbath the
3d of this instant moneth, September, and so hath rendered himself
guilty of the punishment contained in our forementioned Resolution,
and penal discharge, bearing that he should be banished the
province, so be he happened to hold any publick or private exercises
there."

Mr. Koelman, Mr. Macward and Mr. Brown of Wamphray, were the three
clergymen who officiated at the ordination of Mr. Richard Cameron in
the Scottish Church, Rotterdam, previous to his coming to Scotland
in the beginning of the year 1680 (Biographia Presbyteriana, Vol.
i., p. 197). It was Richard Cameron, when in the language of one of
his friends, he was carrying Christ's standard over the mountains of
Scotland, who repeated three times that simple and pathetic prayer,
before he was killed at Airs-moss, _Lord, spare the green, and take
the ripe_ (Id. p. 203) From a letter written from Holland, 7th
December, 1685, by Mr. Robert Hamilton of Preston, it may be seen
how much Mr. Koelman interested himself in the affairs of the
Scottish refugees (Faithful Contendings Displayed, pp. 203-205, 214,
215). There is prefixed to a Dutch translation of Binning's Common
Principles of the Christian Religion, which was executed and
published by Koelman at Amsterdam in 1678, a Memoir of the author.
Koelman acknowledges he had derived all his information respe