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Not much. 3-Forms-of-Unity vs. Westminster-Standards. Theology is essentially the same.
Some have tried to divide the two streams on the issue of the Sabbath, but there's very little difference as far as the historic practice went. "Loosy-goosy" continental view of the Sabbath is pretty much a modern invention. The Dutch may not have been as punctilious as the Puritans were, but in practice they were close cousins.
The Dutch preserved a very truncated form of church-calendar (Nativity, GF, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost) while the Puritans/Scots were determined to rid the church of all unsanctioned (by the Bible) worship ideas.
The Dutch seem to have taken a "patient" approach to divesting themselves of the "organ", instead of quitting cold-turkey, and thus it has never saw the complete removal of accompaniment that the church in the Island effected, even if only for a brief time.
Beside some other minor cultural differences, I have a hard time telling anything of substance apart between the two.
__________________ Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI Made both Lord and Christ--Jesus, the Destroyer
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