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(30) Thus, Como's theorists of "imputative" antinomianism focused on Christ's redemptive blessings but kept themselves anchored to holy writ and presented themselves as the true heirs of the Protestant magisterium.

Redeeming free grace: Thomas Hooker and the contested language of salvation

Thus an early "imputative" strain of antinomianism--wherein believers appeared "sinless" in the eyes of God--would morph into more extreme "perfectionist" positions that claimed true believers could experience the divine within.

Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England

Puritans found in the covenant of grace a means of managing the imitatio Christi--a means that came stocked with a bounty of grace and a regulatory standard, a means that offered righteousness both imputative and infused, and that distributed a confluence of causes in a scheme that left all initiative with the Deity while respecting the subordinate causality of saintly hearts, minds, and wills.