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Excerpt from The Articles of the Synod of Dort, and Its Rejection of Errors: With the History of Events Which Made Way for That Synod, as Published by the Authority of the States-General; And the Documents Confirming Its Decisions
The manner in which the author was brought to the determination of adding the present work to all his former publications, will appear more fully in the introduction to the articles of the Synod of Dordrecht, or Dort. In general, he had erroneously adopted and aided in circulating a gross misrepresentation of the Synod and its decisions, in his "Remarks on the Refutation of Calvinism;" and, having discovered his mistake previously to the publication of a second edition of that work, he was induced to do what he could, to counteract that misrepresentation, and to vindicate the Synod from the atrocious calumnies with which it has been wilfully or inadvertently traduced. But other motives concurred in disposing him to giving his attempt its present form and order.
1. A very interesting and important part of ecclesiastical history has been obscured and overwhelmed in unmerited disgrace, by the misrepresentations given of this Synod and its articles, especially in this nation; in which very few, even among studious men, know accurately the circumstances which led to the convening of this Synod, and the real nature and import of its decisions. To excite, therefore, others more conversant in these studies, and better qualified for the service, to examine this part of ecclesiastical history, and to do impartial justice to it, is one object which the author has in view.
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