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the evasions and exceptions of tliose new Philosophers, who by their subtilties and
niceties overturned all principles, and brought all things into doubt. As for him, he
would keep to his good old ways.' " "
At the hundred and twenty-first session, when the opinions of several
of the foreign divines were taken on the article in the statement of the
Remonstrants relative to perseverance,
" those of Geneva said ' T/iaf they obscured the honour of God j that they sapped the
foundations of salvation j that they robbed men of all their comfort ; that they brought in
rank Popery again, and cooked up the old Pelagian heresy with a new sauce : They therefore
prayed to God with all their hearts, that the supreme Powers of this land would exert them-
selves couragiously and piously, in order to extirpate this corrupt leven, and to free all their
churches from the danger of this contagion.''
" ""
When the time came to draw up canons which should express the
decisions of this specially Calvinistic Synod, Jean Diodati was one of six
deputies chosen to act with the President for that purpose ;
his voice was given in favor of a
and meanwhile
" Personal Censure " pronounced upon those whose opinions were condemned,
" as Introducers of Novelties, Disturbers of their Country, and of the Netherland churches j
as obstinate and disobedient, Promoters of Pactions and Preachers of Errors; as guilty and
convicted of corrupting Religion, of Schism, or dissolving the Unity of the Church, and of
having given very grievous scandal and ojfense : For all which they were sentenced to be
deprived of all Ecclesiastical and Academical offices.""
From Dort Diodati went to England, doubtless, in part, to visit his
brother Theodore.
«' Id., iii. 253.
•"> Id., iii. 267.
" Id., iii. 281. A cruel witticism, even, is attributed to Diodati, on the occasion of the execution of
Barneveldt— that the canons of Dort had been the death of him ;
have come from Ills lips.
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but such words seem very unlikely to