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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...

in Adam’s sin and so were subject to “death and misery” and “destitute of true righteousness necessary for achieving eternal life, and consequently are now born subject to that eternal death … and manifold miseries” (7.4). Whereas Pelagius defined grace as the native ability conferred through creation, together with a mind illuminated by the preaching of the law, the Remonstrants affirmed grace is a “special work” which only functioned in those who believe (7.1), and that under the Law, grace was
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