ANTINOMIANS, in ecclesiastical history, certain heretics who first appeared in the year 1535. The word is formed from the Greek, αντι against, and νομος a law. They were so called, because they rejected the law as of no use under the gospel-dispensation. They held, that good works do not further, nor evil hinder, salvation; that the child of God cannot sin; that God never chastises any land for their sins; that murder, adultery, drunkenness, and the like, are no sins in the children of God; that an hypocrite may have all the graces that were in Adam before his fall; and the like strange opinions.