1769 also saw Toplady publish his translation of Zanchius's "Confession of the Christian Religion" (1562), one of the works which had convinced Toplady to become a Calvinist in 1758. Toplady entitled his translation "The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted". This work drew a vehement response from John Wesley, thus initiating a protracted pamphlet debate between Toplady and Wesley about whether the Church of England was historically Calvinist or Arminian. This debate peaked in 1774, when Toplady published his 700-page "The Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England", a massive study which traced the doctrine of predestination from the period of the Early Church through to William Laud. The section about the Synod of Dort contained a footnote identifying five basic propositions of the Calvinist faith, arguably the first appearance in print of the summary of Calvinism known as the five points of Calvinism.