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title: 'Samuel Miller on Dort'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2018-11-14
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2018-samuel-miller-on-dort
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# Samuel Miller on Dort

*The Christian world, since the days of the apostles, had never a synod of more excellent divines (taking one thing with another) than this synod \[Westminster\] and the Synod of Dort were. — Richard Baxter*

*The divines of that assembly \[Synod of Dort\]...were esteemed of the best that all the reformed churches of Europe (that of France excepted) could afford.” — John Owen*

The Synod of Dort, that great ecumenical Reformed council, was first convened on November 13, 1618, four hundred years ago today.

Thomas Scott (1747-1821), the famous British Anglican rector and Biblical commentator, published a study of *The Articles of the Synod of Dort* in 1818. Two decades later, in 1841, [Samuel Miller wrote an Introductory Essay](/authors/samuel-miller) to this valuable work that itself is a worthy read. Sprinkle Publications of Harrisonburg, Virginia republished these works together in 1993.

Take time on this historic anniversary to [read what Miller and Scott had to say about the great Synod of Dort](/authors/samuel-miller). It is well worth your 21st century time to better understand this 17th century council through 19th century eyes.