supralapsariann.adj.

1633 S. Hoard Gods Love to Mankind 13 The Maintainers of the Absolute Decree do say..eyther that all actions..and all events..are absolutely necessary; so the Supralapsarians: or that all mens ends (at least) are unalterable and indeterminable by the power of their wills; so the Sublapsarians.

1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. i. i. 50 Some few Theologues..have got the name of Supralapsarians, for venturing to look back beyond the Fall of Adam for God's Decrees of Election and Reprobation.

1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. §12 The Reformed church was immediately divided into Universalists, Semi-universalists, Supralapsarians, and Sublapsarians.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 84/1 According to the supralapsarians, the object of predestination is, homo creabilis et labilis; and, according to the sublapsarians and infralapsarians, homo creatus et lapsus.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 400 The young candidate for academical honours..was strictly interrogated by a synod of louring Supralapsarians as to the day and hour when he experienced the new birth.

1894 C. H. Simpkinson Life & Times W. 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.

1940 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 8 216/2 It confronts with the issues raised by the supralapsarians and the Arminians, the Barthians and the humanistic Ritchlians, yea Catholicism and Protestantism.

2000 D. A. S. Fergusson in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 563/2 Disputes between supralapsarians, who held that the decrees logically preceded the divine permission of the Fall, and infralapsarians or sublapsarians.

1633 S. Hoard Gods Love to Mankind 2 The rest of that side, thinking to avoyd the great inconveniences, to which that supralapsarian way lyeth open,..present man to God in his decree of Reprobation, lying in the fall.

1660 T. Pierce New Discoverer Discover'd ii. 60 The whole Supralapsarian Doctrine of Pre-destination & Reprobation.

1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 79 A treatise of Beza's upon the Supralapsarian scheme of Predestination.

1764 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1833) xvii. 639/1 The Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian divines forgot their debates and differences.

1831 T. B. Macaulay Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progr. in Ess. (1897) 191 An absurd allegory written by some raving supralapsarian preacher who was dissatisfied with the mild theology of the Pilgrim's Progress.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 670/2 The supralapsarian view was..adopted by Beza and other Calvinists, as it had been held by some of the Augustinian schoolmen.

1937 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1935–7 C. 43 283 Versed in sub-lapsarian and supra-lapsarian technicalities he is determined to make out at all costs that the Will of God which claims man's obedience is the revealed Will only.

1995 S. Kusukawa Transformation Nat. Philos. iv. 161 Zwingli's idea of the absolute Providence thus leads him to a supralapsarian position.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Supralapsarianism.

1779 R. Robinson in tr. J. Claude Ess. Composition Serm. II. vi. 153/2 (note) Arminius and Gomar took different sides, divines divided with them, sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism, freewill and freegrace were debated.

1811 J. Evans Sketch Denom. Christian World (ed. 12) 75 Recent divines, who have gone to the height of Supralapsarianism.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §1. 458 Whitgift strove to force on the Church the supralapsarianism of his Lambeth Articles.

1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry vi. 86 It certainly must make the common people feel awfully common to hear Brother Gantry spiel about the errors of supralapsarianism!

2003 Hist. Jrnl. 46 281 It might be argued that such a formulation was the logical corollary of Bezan supralapsarianism.