Samuel Miller
Log College Press
Paperback Booklet
42 pages

The convocation
and proceedings
of the Synod of
Dort may be
considered as
among the most
interesting events
of the seventeenth
century. The
Westminster
Assembly of
Divines was,
indeed, more
immediately
interesting to
British and
American Presbyterians; yet the Synod of Dort had, undoubtedly, a species of importance peculiar to itself, and altogether pre-eminent. It was not merely a meeting of the select divines of a single nation, but a convention of the Calvinistic world, to bear testimony against a rising and obtrusive error; to settle a question in which all the Reformed Churches of Europe had an immediate and deep interest. The question was, whether the opinions of Arminius, which were then agitating so many minds, could be reconciled with the Confession of the Belgic Churches?