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The Arminian Confession of 1621: Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 1621, two years after their hopes for free and open debate were dashed at the Synod of Dort, the peers and students of Jacobus Arminius published the Confession or Declaration of the Pastors, which in the Belgian Federation were known as the Remonstrants. The first and perhaps most important of Arminian confessions, this document was composed by Simon Episcopius and then approved at a...

means in order to gain a hearing. Episcopius asked for permission to address the Synod and then launched into an hour and a half oration detailing the Remonstrant position and their oppression at the hands of the Calvinist Reformed.33 The speech was powerful and soon circulated throughout the Netherlands and beyond.34 The Remonstrant protest, however, was short-lived. The president of the synod expelled them for refusing to cooperate,35 and the synod decided to judge them from their writings.36 It
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