A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Vanists


VANISTS, so called from Sir Henry Vane, who was appointed governour of New England in the year 1636; and is said to have been at the head of the party there, who were charged with maintaining Antinomian tenets.[1] See Antinomians.


Original footnotes edit

  1. Calamy's Abridg. vol. i. p. 98.