Anglo-Dutch relations see-sawed dramatically - at times, close allies; at others, deadly rivals … all depending on whether the English were more worried about the Catholic powers taking over in Europe, or about burgeoning Dutch economic and military power.
Matters were not helped by the Dutch attitute towards East Asian trade (they made the English look reasonable by comparison) or the fact that, at times, the Dutch basically dominated the carrying trade.
At the time of the Armada, the English had been supporting the Dutch for years - at times more or less secretly, at other times totally openly. With the Spanish actually preparing to attack England, any pretense that the English and the Dutch were not in cahoots to take down Spanish power was of course dropped - and there would be nothing that the Dutch would have liked better than to catch the Duke of Parma’s totally unarmed barges filled with ferocious Spanish soldiers in tide-water, where they could be massacred by Dutch cannon.
The Duke of Parma apparently knew this, and simply refused to venture out - and without his soldiers, there was no way the Armada could invade England.