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In his introductory essay, Samuel Miller notes that the “convocation and proceedings of the Synod of Dort may be considered as among the most interesting events of the seventeenth century.” Not “merely a meeting of the select divines of a single nation,” the 1618–1619 synod was “a convention of the Calvinistic world, to bear testimony against a rising and obtrusive error; to settle a question in...

and endeavouring secretly to throw every possible degree of odium on the orthodox doctrines, hoping that, by suitable management, their advocates both in the church and among the civil rulers might be gradually diminished, so as to give him a good chance of a majority in any Synod which might be eventually called. This is a painful narrative. It betrays a want of candour and integrity on the part of a man otherwise respectable, which it affords no gratification even to an adversary to record. It
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