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The Reformation · 1618–1619

The Canons of Dort

The Synod of Dort

What it is

An international Reformed synod answers the Remonstrance under five heads — unconditional election, definite atonement, total depravity, irresistible grace, and perseverance.

Why it lasted

The definitive Reformed statement on grace, and the source of the five points later summarised by an acronym its authors never used.

Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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