A speech calling for this event was ridiculed in a pamphlet called The Balance and in a broadsheet image showing an actual giant balance being pressed down on one side by a sword in favor of one side at this event.
A speech calling for this event was ridiculed in a pamphlet called The Balance and in a broadsheet image showing an actual giant balance being pressed down on one side by a sword in favor of one side at this event. Partly spurred on by the English ambassador Dudley Carleton, this event provided the justification needed to execute Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. This event called for a translation of the Bible called the Statenvertaling, and affirmed the Belgic Confession by adopting principles such as total depravity and unconditional election, victories for Franciscus Gomarus. Precipitated by the preaching of the (*) Five Articles of Remonstrance, this event resulted in the imprisonment of Hugo Grotius and the banishment of many Remonstrants. This event produced a set of eponymous Canons that supported standard Calvinist doctrines. For 10 points, name this 1618 -1619 council held by the Dutch Reformed Church to address controversies raised by the followers of Jacobus Arminius. 
A speech calling for this event was ridiculed in a pamphlet called The Balance and in a broadsheet image showing an actual giant balance being pressed down on one side by a sword in favor of one side at this event.
Synod of Dort [or Synod of  Dordrecht; accept Second Synod of  Dort]