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instances of their violation of the divine law,

and that, consequently, they have no occasion

either to confess their sins or to break them

off by repentance.”—McClintock and Strong,

Cyclopedia, art. “Antinomians.” Therefore,

they declared that even one of the vilest of

sins, “considered universally an enormous

violation of the divine law, is not a sin in the

sight of God,” if committed by one of the elect,

“because it is one of the essential and

distinctive characteristics of the elect, that

they cannot do anything that is either

displeasing to God or prohibited by the law.”

These monstrous doctrines are essentially

the same as the later teaching of popular

educators and theologians—that there is no

unchangeable divine law as the standard of

right, but that the standard of morality is

indicated by society itself, and has constantly