“War with the hydra of Antinomianism”: The English Baptist Tradition and the pursuit of holiness, 1630s–1830s[1]--Part I

“The idea of a righteousness of one’s own is the quintessence of sin. Against this, therefore, against every trace of a holiness or righteousness which does not depend simply upon God’s mercy to the sinner, we have to set our faces as relentlessly as Paul did. But equally with Paul we have to recognize that if any man be in Christ there is a new creatio…