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A sect originally founded by John Agricola, a disciple for a time of Martin Luther. He and his followers taught that the law was of no use or obligation under the dispensation of the Gospel. Antinomianism in the United States was preached by Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, an English woman, who came to Boston in September, 1634. She came for the sake of the spiritual comfort of the sermons of John Cotton and John Wheelwright. These men she pronounced to be "under a covenant of grace," all other ministers "under a covenant of works." Mrs. Hutchinson and her disciples believed that good works availed nothing toward salvation. Wheelwright, Vane, the young Governor of Massachusetts at the time, and others, upheld her. She was tried in 1637, and banished with Wheelwright and Aspinwall. A number of her followers were fined or otherwise punished, and the rule of the Puritan hierarchy was firmly established at the expense of freedom of thought and speech.

[Gr.] Opposers of law. This name was applied by Luther to John Agricola and his followers, on the ground that they denied to the Law all authority as a rule of life, and asserted the entire uselessness of good works (Solifidians). Generally the word is regarded as designating those who hold that the wicked actions of the elect are not sinful.