The laity, including the magistrates, tended toward the former, while more clergy tended toward the latter. However, a significant number of clergy clung to non-Calvinistic views of predestination. As Johannes Trapman notes, the States General “never wished to define the Reformed Religion so strictly as to exclude those who accepted only conditional predestination, that is ‘some’ ministers, ‘many’ magistrates, and ‘countless’ church members.”11 As late as 1586, Caspar Coolhaes, a Reformed pastor