What, then, is the specific essence, character, and form of Reformed liturgy? It is Covenantal.

Rev. Van Dooren ends the introduction of his book with the following paragraph: “We conclude with another quotation from Professor C. Trimp, p. 12: ‘Liturgical questions demanded the attention of the re-formed Churches even before Creeds and a Catechism.” It was in her re-formed liturgy that the re-formed Churches presented themselves to the world.