sublapsarian

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church — a far from authoritative source, I fear — declares that the terms "infralapsarian" and "sublapsarian" are interchangeable and favors the latter.

Dangerous Topic Libolt, Clayton 1982

Canons of Dort is not sublapsarian but infralapsarian.

Dangerous Topic Libolt, Clayton 1982

This view, that God enacted His predes - tinating decrees only after Adam's fall, has been labeled infralapsarian or sublapsarian.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT M. KINGDON 1968

"I should not insist upon the sublapsarian view of election which I was taught in the Presbyterian Church as a boy."

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

"I should not insist upon the sublapsarian view of election which I was taught in the Presbyterian Church as a boy."

The Inside of the Cup — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909

Does it please him, according even to the sublapsarian scheme, to leave the great mass of mankind in the helpless and forlorn condition in which they were born, without assistance, and then subject them to eternal misery, because they would not render an obedience beyond their power?

A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843

So far as can be collected from the imperfect account we have of the circumstances of the case, Dr. Strang discovered, it was imagined, a bias to Arminianism, whereas he seems to have been merely more of a sublapsarian than a supralapsarian.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

Thirdly, that seeing (out of the sharpness of his wit) a necessity of forsaking the ordinary sublapsarian way, and the supralapsarian too, as it had diversely been declared by all that had gone before him,

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638

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 Izaak Walton 1638

(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

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638