Pelagianismn.

1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges f. 17^v To him, whose predecessors..recouered vs from Paganisme, from Arianisme, from Pelagianisme, from Zuinglianisme.

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. (1843) viii. 342 While you would seem to fly from Pelagianism, you fall into flat Pharisaism.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 313 This doctrine which hangs the efficacy of the Holy Ghost upon man's Will,..is downright Pelagianism.

1669 J. Owen in T. Gale True Idea Jansenisme Pref. sig. a4^v Bradwardine..opposed the spreading of Pelagianisme in and over the Roman Church.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. Pref. 44 This Father Jansenist Cyran, was to attack the Pope's Supremacy, whilst Jansenius was a battering the Jesuits Pelagenism.

a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. to Pope in Let. to Sir W. Windham (1753) 486 To assert antipodes might become once more as heretical as arianism, or pelagianism.

1830 Biblical Repertory Jan. 82 [Augustine] selects from the eight books of Julian the arguments which are there used in favour of Pelagianism, and then answers them in his own name.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iii. 470 The Pelagianism charged against Scotus is..purely metaphysical.

1909 M. H. Dziewicki Johannis Wyclif De Ente Liborum Duorum Excerpta 201 (margin) Bradwardine, intent upon confuting Pelagianism, leaves certain points in his argument undefined.

1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 4. 70/1 In reiterating the doctrine of original sin the intention was to refute the errors which Protestants had devised from Gnosticisms and Pelagianism.