The party wanted to, in their view, return the Netherlands to its original form: a Protestant nation, based on principles of the bible.
In the north of the empire, Prussia emerged as a powerful Protestant nation.
I understand this to be very convenient for Protestant nations to believe in, but it really is an untrue cliché.
He sent these rosaries everywhere, even to England (at that time a Protestant nation).
We could do well to look at their successes instead of, Protestant nation that we are, gloomily contemplating hell.
Denmark had feared that its sovereignty as a Protestant nation was threatened by the recent Catholic successes.
At the time of the Revolution, the United States had been an overwhelmingly Protestant nation.
But some historians think that England did not become a Protestant nation on a popular level for a long time since then.
The party saw the Netherlands as a Protestant nation, which should be defended.
With the Thirty Years' War decided, there was also no longer any need to fight on in order to support fellow Protestant nations.