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The five Arminian Articles. A.D. 1610.

ARTICULI ARMINIANI sive REMONSTRANTIA.

[The official Dutch text is taken from the first edition of 1612, as printed in De Remonstrantie en het Remonstrantisme. Historisch onderzoek door Dr. Joannes Tideman, Predikant bij de Remonstrantsch-Gereformeerde Gemeente te Rotterdam (Te Haarlem, 1851), pp. 17–20. I procured a copy from my friend, Dr. J. J. van Oosterzee, of Utrecht. The Latin translation of Petrus Bertius was literally copied for me by another friend in Holland, Dr. M. Cohen Stuart, from the Scripta adversaria Collationis Hagiensis, Lugd. Batav. 1616. The English translation is made for this edition. An older English version, with the Latin (but with several omissions), is given by Peter Heylin, in his Historia Quinquarticularis, London, 1660, pp. 50–53. The Preface, the five negative Articles, and Conclusion (see Tideman, pp. 8–27) are omitted.

Niemeyer excludes the Remonstrance from his Collection of Reformed Confessions, but it is necessary to the proper understanding of the Canons of the Synod of Dort. Böckel (pp. 545 sqq.) gives a German translation. Comp. Vol. I. § 65, pp. 508 sqq.]