supralapsarians

The system of law, more chimerical and less baleful than that of the supralapsarians and the sublapsarians, occupied with arithmetical calculations those who could no longer gain celebrity as partisans of the doctrine of crucified divinity.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

You will allege that my indignation is reasonable enough against the supralapsarians, who believe that the king of Morocco begot these five hundred children only for his glory; and that he had always the intention to torture and burn them, except two, who were destined to reign.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Ah, supralapsarians, infralapsarians, free-gracians, sufficers, efficacians, jansenists, and molinists — become men, and no longer trouble the earth with such absurd and abominable fooleries.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Infralapsarians held that God's decree of election and reprobation took account of the decree of permission for the Fall; supralapsarians held that God's decree of election and reprobation necessitated the Fall.

Dangerous Topic Libolt, Clayton 1982

Game, set, and match, ya goddamn treehugging reformist supralapsarians!

Bouphonia Phila 2010

Game, set, and match, ya goddamn treehugging reformist supralapsarians!

Bouphonia Phila 2010

At times, I look at Mac vs. Windows arguments as rather like the more obscure theological debates such as between the infralapsarians and the supralapsarians.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

At times, I look at Mac vs. Windows arguments as rather like the more obscure theological debates such as between the infralapsarians and the supralapsarians.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

But listen to some of our supralapsarians, and they will say, that the design of God in promising those aids is, to assure us that how much soever we shall resist one measure of grace, he will still give us a greater measure, and ever proportion the counter - poise of grace to that of a deliberate, obstinate, and voluntary enmity.

Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague 1812