supralapsarian

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On October 20, 1645, unimpeachable supralapsarian Calvinist George Gillespie, contrary to his own specific opinion, urged reserve on the Assembly in its statement on the decree of God.

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  1. Of or pertaining to supralapsarianism. Supralapsarian scheme. C. Mather, Mag. Chris., iii. 1. The supralapsarian scheme, which differs from the former [infralapsarian] in the order of the decrees, and, with a severer but terrible logic, includes the fall as a necessary negative condition for the manifestation of God's redeeming mercy on the elect, and his punitive justice on the reprobate, was held as a private opinion by some eminent Calvinists, … but it is not taught in any Confession. P. Schaff, Christ and Christianity, p. 161.
  2. One who believes in supralapsarianism.

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  • Calvin's successor in Geneva, Theodore Beza, was also a strict supralapsarian. —  Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • There is, _first_, the supralapsarian theory. —  The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
  • There you will find in what year the excellent man, whose life you write, became a Master of Arts: how his first reading of learned Hooker had been occasioned by certain puritanical pamphlets; and how good a preparative he found it for his reading of Calvin's Institutions, the honour of whose name (at that time especially) gave such credit to his errors: how he erred with Mr. Calvin, whilst he took things upon trust in the sublapsarian way: how, being chosen to be a Clerk of the Convocation for the Diocese of Lincoln, 1625, he reduced the Quinquarticular Controversy into five schemes or tables; and thereupon discerned a necessity of quitting the sublapsarian way, of which he had before a better liking, as well as the supralapsarian, which he could never fancy. —  Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, ;C;, Volume 2
  • On October 20, 1645, unimpeachable supralapsarian Calvinist George Gillespie, contrary to his own specific opinion, urged reserve on the Assembly in its statement on the decree of God. —  Reasons to Believe -
  • Samuel Rutherford, and David Dickson, the author of Therapeutica Sacia, and many other eminent divines of that time, a supralapsarian, he was far from exacting in others a rigid conformity to his particular opinions. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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