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  • Agricola went to Berlin, commenced teaching his blasphemies again, and died there, at the age of seventy-four, without any sign of repentance; also, that Florinundus calls the Antinomians "Atheists who believe in neither God nor the devil."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Practically he stands forth in the Areopagitica as the advocate of a Toleration that would have satisfied all the necessities of the juncture, by giving full liberty not only to orthodox Congregationalists, but also to Baptists, so-called Antinomians, and Seekers, and perhaps all other Protestant sects that had any real rooting at that time in English society.

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • For the first of which; to instance in one very gross one, instead of many, take the doctrine of those commonly called Antinomians, who assert positively, that believers, or persons regenerate, and within the covenant of grace, cannot sin.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

  • The nobler leaders and the saner spirits were taken in the mass with those of an opposite character, and were grouped under comprehensive labels of reproach and scorn, such as "Antinomians," "Enthusiasts," or

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • I confess there have been such blasphemous Hereticks amongst us, called Antinomians, who are altogether for Faith without good Works, making as if Christ by erecting his Gospel destroy’d the moral Law; but none can entertain such an horrible Opinion as that is, whose sinful Practices have not so far depraved their Principles, that they believe it is so only because they would have it to be so, directly contrary to our Saviour’s own

    Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712

  • Antinomians who reject sovereignty have two main alternatives.

    The truth about left and right « Isegoria 2008

  • So long to the apostate, Ecumenical Loose Conglomeration of Antinomians.

    Kanouse writes with `heavy heart' of Lutherans' decision on gay pastors | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Puritan leaders called Anne Hutchinson and her supporters Antinomians—individuals opposed to the rule of law.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

  • Baptists and Anabaptists; Brownists and Barrowists; Anti-Trinitarians and Anti-Sabbatarians — they're all listed in Masson's Life of Milton — Antinomians and Famulists; Divorcers and Seekers; Soul-Sleepers and Millenaries; Sceptics and Atheists; Ranters and Quakers — how the Quakers got into such company heaven alone knows, but at least they managed to get out of it; and the Muggletonians — I've really never been able to establish what they believed.

    War Game Price, Anthony 1976

  • Solifidians, Antinomians, and I know not what; — such as oppose or deny the necessity of universal obedience, or good works.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

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