in church history, a title given to the Arminians (See that entry, *Encyc.*). 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 patronized in England by Archbishop Laud. In Holland, the patrons of Calvinism presented an address in opposition to the remonstrance of the Arminians, and called it a counter-remonstrance. Hence the Dutch Calvinists were termed Counter remonstrants. Much controversy was carried on by these rival sects, which, on the side of the Calvinists, was extremely liberal.