[Footnote 015:  Bella plusquam civilia. Lucan.]

[Footnote 016:  Those who wish to obtain a clear, concise, and exact notion of Calvinism and Arminianism, will usefully peruse the account of them in Mr. Evans’s “Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World.”  The thirteenth Edition is now before us, and we believe that it has been often since reprinted.]

[Footnote 017:  Mosheim’s Ecc.  Hist.  Cent. xvi, ch. 2.  Sec. 3. part 2.]

[Footnote 018:  Chalmer’s Biographical Dictionary, Title “Arminius.”]

[Footnote 019:  A short and clear account of Arminianism is given by Le Clere, in his Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, Vol.  II.  Art. 3. p. 123.]

[Footnote 020:  The best discussion of this subject, which has fallen into the hands of the writer, is Bourduloue’s Sermon sur la Predestination.]

[Footnote 021:  English Translation of Burigni’s Life of Grotius, pp. 43, 44, 45.]

[Footnote 022:  Vol. i.]

[Footnote 023:  Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton, during his Embassy in Holland, from January 1615-16[**Modern presentation.] to December 1620.  London, 1757, p. 84,—­Sir Dudley Carleton’s Letters abound with harsh expressions respecting Grotius.  The Editor of this correspondence has inserted (p. 415) a letter from Grotius to Dr. Lancelot Andrews, written from the Castle at Louvestein.  “This letter,” says the Editor, “which was never printed before, deserves a place here, not only for its elegance and spirit, and its connection with the subject of the work, but likewise in justice to the memory of the great writer, as it contains his own justification of his conduct, which may be compared with the less favourable accounts of it in the preceding letters of Sir Dudley Carleton.  The original is extant among the manuscripts in the library of the late Sir Hans Sloane, bart. now part of the British Museum.”—­“Utinam,” says Grotius in this letter, “D.  Carleton mihi esset plus aequior; cui mitigando propinqui mei operam dant.  Sed partium, studia mire homines obcaecant.”]

[Footnote 024:  The history of this Synod, and of the whole controversy upon Arminianism, is contained in Brand’s History of the Reformation:  the account of the synod in these pages, is principally extracted from the French abridgment of that work, in 3 volumes 8vo.  The Calvinian representation of the Arminian doctrines, and the proceedings of the synod, may be seen in the late Mr. Scott’s Articles of the Synod of Dort, to which he has prefixed the History of the Events which made way for that Synod:  it is severely censured by Mr. James Nichols, in his Calvinism and Arminianism compared.  Introd. cxlii.