The existence of antinomianism in the Churches of Greece and Asia Minor, synchronizing with their foundation, transpires from the Epistles of St. Paul.
The outbreak of Antinomianismwhich disfigured and distressed primitive Christianity.
The Cainites exhibit Pauline antinomianism in its last, most extravagant, most grotesque expression.
The antinomianism of Marcion was ultimately based on the strength of his religious feeling, on his personal religion as contrasted with all statutory religion.
For the bold Anti-judaist was the disciple of a Jewish thinker, Paul, and the origin of Marcion's antinomianismmay be ultimately found in the prophets.
Apparently he gives his inferences as their doctrines; and the antinomianism which, in the case of the trial of Madame Ameaux, Henry identifies with pantheism, was by his own showing of a Christian cast.
Different from either of these was the Antinomianism charged by Luther against Agricola.
From the latter part of the 17th century charges of Antinomianism have frequently been directed against Calvinists, on the ground of their disparagement of "deadly doing" and of "legal preaching.
If legalism gets its answer in the character of the restoration, antinomianism gets its answer in the effect thereof.
When taken together, they furnish a triumphant answer to the legalism and antinomianism of the human heart.
But Antinomianism had suffered from an imputation of immorality, and no such tendency was apparent, unless by logical deduction, in the doctrines taught in Boston.
Encounter with the Antinomianism of Agricola Just as the Anabaptist and fanatic movement had originally been fostered by Luther’s doctrines, soAntinomianism sprang from the seed he had scattered.
In this wise Antinomianism exercised on him a restraining influence, and was to some extent of service to his doctrine and undertaking, warning him, as the fanatic movement had done previously, of certain rocks to be avoided.
For a while, too, he was disposed to credit the news that Antinomianism was on the increase in Saxony, Thuringia and elsewhere.
Hideous as is the perversion of gospel teaching which Agricola set forth, the doctrines of Antinomianism still linger on amongst certain sects of Calvinists in England and Scotland.
The tendency of Antinomianism is to become an esoteric doctrine, and it is seldom preached in any grosser form than this, however sweet it may be to the hearts of the initiated.
But whether the vulgar antinomianism of Fletcher's day had or had not its roots in Calvinistic doctrine, his handling of it as a practical matter is vigorous and effective in the highest degree.
As Mr. Watson has well said: "To show however that antinomianism can graft itself upon other stocks besides that of the Calvinistic decrees, it was found also among the Moravians, and the Methodists did not escape.
With this statement Wesley would, we think, have agreed; but he undoubtedly held thatantinomianism was a much more natural and likely result of Calvinistic than of Arminian principles.
Nor had the Assembly agreed to let even ordinary Anabaptism and Antinomianism alone; for they had again memorialized Parliament on the subject, and had had a rather satisfactory response from the Commons, Nov.
Notwithstanding this imputation, and illustrative scandals in Edwards, it really appears that Antinomianism took itself out in high mystic preaching of justification by faith, the doctrine of assurance, and the privileges of saintship.
They are exhorted to extirpate heresy and schism, especially Antinomianism and Anabaptism, and, are warned at some length against the snare of Toleration.
This antinomianism is no part of true Mysticism; but it is often found in conjunction with mystical speculation among the half-educated.
The same is true of antinomianism in all its forms.
In the Lutheran Church antinomianism appeared in a double form: one chiefly before the other after the death of Luther.
With the same interest in view, to save the Gospel from corruption, the Formula of Concord opposes antinomianism and urges that the distinction between the Law and the Gospel be carefully preserved.
Seeberg remarks that in reality, Poach and Otto were merely opposed to such an interpretation of the Third Use of the Law as made the Law a motive of good works, and hence could not be charged with antinomianism proper.
The cocoon of antinomianism always bursts into antigospelism.
Thus while the ideal theory of dominion 'founded in grace' is suggestive of antinomianism and revolution, Wycliffe's practical teachings were marked by devotion to the existing temporal order.
Persecution of Brethren of the Free Spirit continued late into the fifteenth century: but heresies far more formidable than the mystic antinomianism which had been the characteristic heresy of Germany were about to dawn.
The crude dualism and perverted antinomianism of the sect contained little indeed that either merited respect or promised lasting influence.
