Conciliatory or Irenical Animadversions on the Controversies Agitated in Britain under the Unhappy Names of Antinomians and Neonomians
Author: first_name: Hermann
last_name: Witsius
Language: English
Year: 1807

The Antinomian-Neonomian controversy of the 17th century was initiated by the republication of a set of sermons by Tobias Crisp entitled "Christ alone exalted" which were accused of antinomianism by <a href="https://librivox.org/author/8494">Richard Baxter</a> who in turn was accused of 'neonomianism', "the idea that Christ has, by his atonement, so lowered the requirements of the law that mere endeavor is accepted in room of perfect obedience." (Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesi