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DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, AND PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN;

CONDEMNED

WHO WAS

BY

SYNOD
THE

OF

AS A
DORT

DANGEROUS HERETIC, AND,

WITH SEVERAL OTHER MINISTERS, WAS SENTENCED TO PERPETUAL
BANISHMENT BY THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES OF HOLLAND, FOR
HOLDING THE DOCTRINE OF GENERAL REDEMPTION;

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE SYNOD OF DORT;

AND OF

THE SUFFERINGS TO WHICH THE FOLLOWERS OF ARMINIUS WERE EXPOSED, IN
CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR ATTACHMENT TO HIS OPINIONS.

BY FREDERICK CALDER.

"Simon Episcopius, the disciple of Arminius, was admired even by his enemies, on account
MOSHEIM.
of the depth of his judgment, the extent of his learning, and the force of his eloquence."

"The Calvinists now punished with death those dissenters who had only followed the
examples of the most renowned of Protestant Reformers, by a rebellion against authority, for
the sake of maintaining the paramount sovereignty of reason."-SIR J. MACKINTOSH.

LONDON:

HAYWARD AND MOORE, 53, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1838.
5.5.0.

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