Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: REMONSTRANTS

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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: REMONSTRANTS


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A title given to the Arminians, by reason of the remonstrance which, in 1610, they made to the states of Holland against the sentence of the Synod of Dort, which condemned them as heretics. Episcopius and Grotius were at the head of the Remonstrants, whose principles were first openly patronised in England by archbishop Laud. In Holland, the Calvinists presented an address in opposition to the remonstrance of the Arminians, and called it a counter-remonstrance.

See ARMINIANS and DORT.