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LIBERTINES , the See also:

nickname, rather than the name, given to various See also:political and social parties. It is futile to deduce the name from the Libertines of Acts vi. 9; these were " sons of freedmen," for it is vain to make them citizens of an imaginary Libertum, or to substitute (with See also:Beza) Libustines, in the sense of inhabitants of See also:Libya. In a sense akin to the See also:modern use of the See also:term " libertine," i.e a See also:person who sets the rules of morality, &c., at See also:defiance, the word seems first to have been applied, as a stigma, to See also:Anabaptists in the See also:Low Countries (See also:Mark See also:Pattison, Essays, ii. 38). It has become especially attached to the liberal party in See also:Geneva, opposed to See also:Calvin and carrying on the tradition of the Liberators in that See also:city; but the term was never applied to them till after Calvin's See also:death (F. W. Kampschulte, Johann Calvin). Calvin, who wrote against the " Libertins qui se nomment Spirituelz " (1545), never confused them with his political antagonists in Geneva, called Perrinistes from their See also:leader Amadeo Perrin. The See also:objects of Calvin's polemic were the Anabaptists above mentioned, whose first obscure leader was Coppin of See also:Lisle, followed by Quintin of Hennegau, by whom and his disciples, See also:Bertram See also:des See also:Moulins and See also:Claude Perseval, the principles of the See also:sect were disseminated in See also:France. Quintin was put to death as a heretic at See also:Tournai in 1546. His most notable follower was See also:Antoine Pocquet, a native of See also:Enghien, See also:Belgium, See also:priest and See also:almoner (1540-1549), afterwards pensioner of the See also:queen of See also:Navarre, who was a See also:guest of See also:Bucer at See also:Strassburg (1543–1544) and died some See also:time after 156o.

Calvin (who had met Quintin in See also:

Paris) describes the doctrines he impugns as pantheistic and antinomian. See See also:Choisy in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1902). (A.

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