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Agricola, Johannes, (Johannes Agricola in Meditation,)
was one of the foremost of the German Reformers. He was born at
Eisleben, April 20th, 1492. He met Luther whilst a student at
Wittenberg, and became attached to him, accompanying him to the
Leipsic Assembly of Divines, where he acted as recording
secretary. He established the reformed religion at Frankfort. In
1536 he was called to fill a professorial chair at Wittenberg.
Here he first taught the views which Luther termed Antinomian.
He held that Christians were entirely free from the Divine law,
being under the Gospel alone. He denied that Christians were under
any obligations to keep the ten commandments. Mr. Browning has
quite accurately, though unsparingly, exposed his impious teaching
in his poem Johannes Agricola in Meditation
(q.v.)
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