OF THE SYNOD OF DOR T. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, WITH NOTES, BY THE REV. THOMAS SCOTT, D. D. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, BY THE REV. SAMUEL MILLER, D.D. Professor in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J. Synod of Durt, 1613-201 PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. JAMES RUSSELL, PUBLISHING AGENT. 1841. CONTENTS. I. PREFACE TO THE REFORMED CHURCHES; in which the rise and progress of those controversies in Belgium, for the removal of which this Synod was es- pecially held, are briefly and faithfully related II. THE JUDGMENT of the National Synod of the re- formed Belgic churches held at Dort, A. D. 1618, 1619; at which very many Theologians of the reformed churches of Great Britain, Germany, and France were present; concerning the five heads of doctrine, contro- eighteen articles, (with Notes and References) These eighteen articles, as abbreviated by Tilenus, and reported by Heylin, in one article, (with a remark) Rejection of Errors, by which the Belgic churches have CHAPTERS III and IV. On the doctrine of Man's corruption, Abbreviation by Tilenus and Heylin, in two articles Rejection of Errors on the third and fourth chapters, in nine articles (with Notes, &c.) CHAPTER V. Of Doctrine.-Concerning the Perseverance of the saints, in fifteen articles, (with Notes, &c.) Abbreviation by Tilenus and Heylin in one article, with their conclusion, and a remark upon it Rejection of Errors on the fifth chapter, concerning the INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. THE Convocation and proceedings of the Synod of Dort, may be considered as among the most interesting events of the seventeenth century. The Westminster Assembly of Divines was, indeed, more immediately interesting to British and American Presbyterians; and the works of that celebrated Assembly, as monuments of judgment, taste, and sound theology, have certainly never been equalled by those of any other uninspired ecclesiastical body that ever convened. Yet the Synod of Dort had, undoubtedly, a species of importance peculiar to itself, and altogether pre-eminent. It was not merely a meeting of the select divines of a single nation, but a convention of the Calvinistic world, to bear testimony against a rising and obtrusive error; to settle a question in which all the Reformed Churches of Europe had an immediate and deep interest. The question was, whether the opinions of Arminius, which were then agitating so |