"Antinomian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... From the antinomian torrent of this voluptuous anarchy the spirits of Epicurus, of Spinoza, of Goethe, of Nietzsche, turn away in horror. This is indeed an insurrection from the depths; this is indeed a breaking loose of chaos; this is indeed a "return to Nature." For there is a perilous intoxication in all ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... with historical associations, past and present. Under its roof Mrs. Anne Hutchinson was wont to hold her Antinomian seances, under the very nose of Governor John Winthrop, when "over against the site of the Old Corner Store dwelt the notables of the town,—the governor, the elder of the church, the captain of the artillery company, and the most needful of the craftsmen and artificers of the humble plantation; ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various
... buffet her." A disconsolate mother implored Dr. Beaumont to interfere and support her authority with her daughter, who, misunderstanding their preacher's encomiums on the sufficiency of faith, abandoned herself to antinomian licentiousness, asserting, that "it was the law which had created sin," but that the elect were free from the curse of the law. One father was ruined by children, who refused to "labour for the meat that perisheth." Another came in the deepest ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... to the young poet, a melancholy which had to be feigned in my case, was reserved for sonnets of a somewhat antinomian ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey |
