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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...

7. But Election is the immutable purpose of God, by which, before the foundations of the world were laid, he chose, out of the whole human race, fallen by their own fault from their primeval integrity into sin and destruction, according to the most free good pleasure of his own will, and of mere grace, a certain number of men, neither better nor worthier than others, but lying in the same misery with the rest, to salvation in Christ; whom he had, even from eternity, constituted Mediator and Head
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