Five Rejections

...the Canons were framed in five points in response to the Five Articles. As a judgment the Canons first of all needed to present a rejection of Remonstrant errors. So the rejection of errors sections best expressed the primary intent of the Canons.

 

Donald W. Sinnema, "The Canons of Dordt: From Judgment on Arminianism to Confessional Standard," in Revisiting the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619), ed. Aza Goudriaan and Fred A. van Lieburg (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2011), 331