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The Synod was growing frustrated with the Remonstrants. The Acts1 helps us understand why: the Remonstrants would not directly answer questions put to them; they tried to divert the discussion to other matters; and they repeatedly referred to the Synod as a conference, viewing themselves as equals
Remonstrants, the Arminians of the sixteenth century are called, because a representative group of them in 1610 drew up a document which they called a remonstrance, in which they briefly set forth their belief in five formulas of doctrine. Contra-remonstrants is a name applied to the Reformed father
The Remonstrance did not cease to push their cause diligently, to win the favor of the great, to gain the hearts of the Magistrates, and to render suspect and prevent all Synodical gatherings with the Political leaders, to gain the vacant Churches, to spread their views through public sermons and wr
The Arminians of the sixteenth century are called Remonstrants because a representative group of them in 1610 drew up a document which they called a remonstrance, in which they briefly set forth their belief in five formulas of doctrine. Contra-remonstrants is a name applied to the Reformed fathers
The leader of the Remonstrants at the Synod was Simon Episcopius. He was a “witty debater, a congenial controversialist, and a knowledgeable student of the Scriptures, his theology was unscriptural and uncertain” (Kistemaker 1968, 42). For more than a month the Synod was longsuffering with the Armin
"In closing the Remonstrants protest before God and His holy congregation and likewise before their noble Lords and even before the whole world that this our doing by no means tends towards any partisanship, strife, separation, or schism, be it in church or state, much less toward any change in the
As was stated, the Contra-Remonstration is of inestimable value as source material. For the author and the signatories of this document were contemporaries of the Remonstrants. They lived with these people. With their own eyes they saw them in action and they heard them talk with their own ears. Wha
(Connection: In the previous section we saw that the Remonstrant party continued its underhanded maneuverings to gain "toleration" for itself. However, in several cities the Contra-Remonstrants had the support of the civil authorities in continuing to insist that the differences in the churches had
At this time they delivered to the States a request, or, as they called it, a Remonstrance (because of which they were hereafter called Remonstrants). This was published in June at the Hague Conference. In this they put the doctrine of the Reformed Churches concerning divine predestination, concerni
"This Noble, Potent and Mandating Lords is in brief what we insist is being taught in our churches. What the Remonstrants add to it to make it appear as hateful as possible is but a mass of consequences and slanderings that the carnal mind, which is enmity against God, deduces from it. However, he w