CHICANO LIBRARIES OF THE SYNOD OF DORT, AND ITS ᎠᎾᎡᎢ, REJECTION OF ERRORS: WITH THE HISTORY OF EVENTS WHICH MADE WAY FOR THAT SYNOD, AS PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATES-GENERAL; AND THE DOCUMENTS CONFIRMING ITS DECISION'S. Cranslated from the Latin, WITH NOTES, REMARKS, AND REFERENCES, BY THOMAS SCOTT, RECTOR OF ASTON SANDFORD, BUCKS. "He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."- Audi alteram partem. London: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, By A. MACINTOSH, London Society's Office, Spitalfields: AND SOLD BY L. B. SEELEY, FLEET STREET; AND J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY, 1818. Seminary TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1. PREFACE TO THE REFORMED CHURCHES; in which the rise and progress of those controversies in Belgium, for the removal of which this Synod was especially held, are briefly and faithfully related.... INTRODUCTION to this Preface and the History contained ........ THE HISTORY (a translation with notes) ... 11. THE JUDGMENT of the National Synod of the reformed Belgick 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, controverted in the Belgick churches. (Published May 5, 1619.)...... Remarks on this JUDGMENT ...... v-viii 1-100 1-7 101-105 111-176 Introductory Remarks...... 111-112 CHAPTER I. On the doctrine of divine Predestination, in eigh- teen articles, (with Notes and References).. 112-120 These eighteen articles, as abbreviated by Tilenus, and re- Rejection of Errors, by which the Belgick churches have for some time been disturbed, (with Notes and References).......... CHAPTER II. On the doctrine of the death of Christ, and ........ 121-127 128-130 Abbreviation (in one article) by Tilenus and Heylin CHAPTERS III. and IV. On the doctrine of Man's corruption, and on the method of his conversion to God; in seventeen Abbreviation by Tilenus and Heylin, in two articles....... Rejection of Errors on the third and fourth chapters, in nine 131-134 135-142 142, 143 143-148 190370 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 doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, in nine articles, P R E FАСЕ. THE manner in which the author was brought to the determination, of adding the present work to all his former publications, will appear more fully in the introduction to the articles of the Synod of Dordrecht, or Dort. In general, he had erroneously adopted, and aided in circulating, a gross misrepresentation of the Synod and its decisions, in his 'Re'marks on the Refutation of Calvinism;' and, having discovered his mistake previously to the publication of a second edition of that work, he was induced to do what he could, to counteract that misrepresentation, and to vindicate the Synod from the atrocious calumnies, with which it has been wilfully or inadvertently traduced. But other motives concurred in disposing him, to giving his attempt its present form and order. 1. A very interesting and important part of ecclesiastical history has been obscured and overwhelmed in unmerited disgrace, by the misrepresentations given of this Synod and its articles, especially in this nation; in which very few, even among studious men, know accurately the circumstances which led to the convening of this Synod, and the real nature and import of its decisions. To excite therefore |