Brewer's: Hattemists

An ecclesiastical sect in Holland; so called from Pontin von Hattem, of Zealand (seventeenth century). They denied the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, and the corruption of human nature.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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