The acts of the Synod are tied…

The acts of the Synod are tied to the political intrigues that have arisen during the twelve year truce in the Dutch war with Spain.

The Synod condemns the religious doctrine of Arminianism as heresy, which anticipates the political condemnation of Oldenbarnevelt, who has been the protector of the Arminian Remonstrants.

For the crime of general perturbation in the state of the nation, both in Church and State (treason), the seventy-two-year-old Advocate is beheaded at The Hague on May 13, 1619, only four days after the final meeting of the Synod.

(He is considered, also by the Calvinists, to be one of the greatest men in the history of the Netherlands.)

Also lost to the nation as a consequence of the Arminian defeat is the brilliant jurist Hugo Grotius, who had been a supporter of the Remonstrants' rights leading up to the Synod.

Grotius, imprisoned, like Oldenbarnevelt, since August 29, 1618, is given a life sentence but escapes with the help of his wife.

(Arminian theology will later receive official toleration by the State and will thereafter continue in various forms within Protestantism.)