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Sublapsarian, n. and a. Theol.|sʌblæpˈsɛərɪən|
[f. mod.L. sublapsārius, f. sub- sub- 17 + lapsus fall, lapse: see -ian. Cf. F. sublapsaire.]
A. n. = Infralapsarian A, q.v.
1656Jer. Taylor Deus Justificatus 33 The Sublapsarians say, That God made it by his decree necessary, that all wee who were born of Adam should be born guilty of Originall Sin. a1660Hammond Hell Torm. (1665) 67 They which deny all irrespective decree of Reprobation or Præterition against Supralapsarians and Sublapsarians. 1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. §12 The Reformed church was immediately divided into Universalists, Semi-universalists, Supralapsarians, and Sublapsarians. 1851R. S. Hawker in Life & Lett. (1905) 217 His little girl is a Sub-lapsarian. 1894Simkinson Laud i. 13 The Puritan chiefs, divided into two hostile camps of sublapsarians and supralapsarians, argued interminably the question whether the Divine decrees of rigid election or reprobation dated from before or after the fall of Adam.
B. adj. = Infralapsarian B.
a1660Hammond Pacif. Disc. 14 The Decree of Reprobation according to the Sublapsarian Doctrine, being nothing else but a meer preterition or non-election of some persons whom God left, as he found. a1751Doddridge Lect. (1763) 460 The Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian schemes agree in asserting the doctrine of predestination, but with this difference. 1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. ii. §10 The Sublapsarian doctors. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 671/1 The canons of Dort..are favourable to the sub⁓lapsarian view.
Hence Sublapˈsarianism, the doctrine of the Sublapsarians. So † Subˈlapsary a. = Sublapsarian B.
1728Chambers Cycl., Sublapsary, in Theology; or Infralapsary; a Term applied to such as hold, that God having foreseen the Fall of Adam, and in consequence thereof, the Loss of Mankind; resolved to give a Grace sufficient to Salvation to some, and to refuse it to others. 1865Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Oct. 11 Predestinarianism, Supra-lapsarianism, Sublapsarianism, with all their various minor variations. 1875Spurgeon Lect. Stud. Ser. i. 78 The great problems of sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism. |