antinomacy

[Gr. αντί (anti) = instead of, and όνομα (onoma) = name.] Gram.: A figure in which an appellative is used for a proper name. ( Glo , Nova , 2nd ed.) An-ti-nō-mi-an, a . & s . [In Ger. Antinomier; Gr. ἀντι (anti) = against, and νόμος (nomos) = law, from νέμω (nemo) = to deal out, to distribute.] A. As adjective: Opposed to the law. Pertaining to the Antinomian sect or to their doctrine. (See the substantive.) "It is a mad conceit of our Antinomian here ticks, that God sees no sin in his elect; whereas he notes and takes, more tenderly, their offences than any other."Bp. Hall: Rem . , p. 233. B. As substantive. [In Ger. Antinomier; a term first introduced by Luther.] 1. Gen. One who holds tenets opposed to the authority of the moral law or ten commandments revealed in Scripture. From the apostolic times downward individuals misunderstanding the doctrine of justification by faith "without the deeds of the law" (Rom. iii. 21, 28), have tended to Antinomianism (Rom. vi. 15). "That doctrine that holds that the covenant of grace is not established upon conditions, and that nothing of performance is required on man's part to give him an interest in it, but only to believe that he is justified; this certainly subverts all the motives of a good life. But this is the doctrine of the Anti nomians."- South : Serm., vii. 195. Spec. (pl.): A sect which originated with John Agricola, a companion of Luther, about the year 1538. He is said to have held that 246 as the church is not now under the law, but under the gospel, the ten commandments should not be taught to the people. Enemies said that he or his followers considered that a believer might sin at his pleasure, but this is believed to have been a calumny. ( Mosheim : Church Hist., Cent. xvi., sect. iii., pt. ii. 26.) Views like those of Agricola were held by some Presbyterians in England during the seventeenth century. (Mosheim: Ch. Hist ., Cent. xvii., sect. ii., pt. ii. 22, and note.) Ăn-ti-nō-mi-an-işm, 8. [Eng. antinomian, and suffix -ism.] The system of doctrine held by the Antinomians. "Antinomianism began in one minister of this diocese [Norwich), and how much it is spread, I had rather lament than speak."- Bp . Hall : Rem ., p. 189.