Utmost Concern

At the very start of that work, they submitted their first petition to Parliament, warning it of what the assembly perceived as the greatest theological threat looming over London: antinomianism. Fighting antinomian teaching would become the assembly’s utmost concern during the first two months of its meetings, but the story of the start and growth of antinomianism begins several decades before the assembly met.

 

Whitney G. Gamble, Christ and the Law: Antinomianian at the Westminster Assembly (GrandRapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2016), 27