...Patrick Timmis This essay argues that the British delegation's distinctive approach to the Reformed doctrine of perseverance at the Synod of Dort provides necessary context for two international sermons delivered by John Donne in 1619. Donne's rhetoric in these sermons, in turn, is echoed...

... with the quasi-­monarchical Stadhouder. As such, Brandt is generally located in an earlier tradition of Remonstrant writers who resisted the Dutch Calvinist consensus established after the Synod of Dort in 1618 – 19 — Grotius, Johannes Uytenbogaert, and Simon Episcopius —  as well as with Johan de Witt...

... . . . strongly backing the Synod of Dort, which met in an attempt to resolve the Calvinist–Arminian battle in the Netherlands”; see Jenny Wormald, “James VI and I (1566–1625),” ODNB , Sept. 25, 2014. Herbert, by contrast, longs to recover relations of justice and generosity in the biological world, even...