… souls par excellence. So, too, he is labelled as a Supralapsarian and Hyper, though he is far more Sublapsarian than Calvin himself. One can also add to this list William Romaine, Augustus Toplady, Robert Traill, James Hervey, William Huntington and all those of like calibre who are now frowned on by our Reformed Establishment, though they were pillars of the faith and men who moved mountains in their day.
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Aug 17
… that God permitted man to fall, though he could have stopped it. Both the Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian schemes have no place for the idea that God ordained sin and is thus its author, though especially Supralapsarians are accused of believing so.
It must be stressed that such speculative theology was not intended by the Dutch divines as a yardstick for orthodoxy and certainly not to distinguish Hyper-Calvinism from Calvinism. The Dutchmen simply strove to define what plain, …
… is only mentioned in a footnote in which Huntington is called a Hyper-Calvinist although he was a Sublapsarian who wrote widely against Antinomianism and was a Free Offer man in the Marrow Men style. Furthermore, one misses comment on the great scandal which split the Huntingdonians (as opposed to the Huntingtonians) down the middle when the Countess’s protégé Martin Madan published his best-seller promoting bigamy.
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… controversy. This was also emphasised by Gill’s biographer John Rippon. Gill was a professing sublapsarian as testified by his works, his contemporary friends and his two major biographers. He was also a firm critic of Turretin’s Hyper view of predestination and Arminian view of justification. Engelsma feels that Gill might have been forced into Hyper-Calvinist extremes through his debate with John Wesley. Gill’s writings against Wesley, however, show that he was not only a …
… up Antinomianism with Supralapsarianism and the Five Points of Dort. As the findings of Dort are Sublapsarian to the core and one could hardly think of such delegates as Bogerman and Davenant, or any of the others for that matter, as Antinomians, this argument is rather lame. This lameness becomes even more apparent when Daniel presents his first candidate for Antinomian ‘honours,’ Tobias Crisp, who was the darling of the Calvinistic giants of the Great Awakening. However, the fact that …
… Hyper-Calvinism, I must confess that, in this matter, I am far more a moderate Calvinist, being a Sublapsarian, than Prof. Engelsma, who, in my circles, has the reputation of being a most ardent Hyper-Calvinist. This shows how little the term is worth and perhaps we should be more careful in our use of such theological swear-words. I did not understand the English of your pen-ultimate sentence, so I cannot comment on it. Perhaps you would do me the favour of explaining its purport to my …
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575)
Aug 17
… teaching that God elected some men to salvation and some to reprobation irrespective of the Fall. Sublapsarian Bullinger taught that God ordains some of sinful mankind to eternal life and some He passes by. Zwingli was never truly Reformed on imputation whereas Bullinger taught both the imputation of Adam’s sin to mankind and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to the elect. Zwingli rejected the book of Revelation as the Word of God but Bullinger both accepted it and preached from …
… active gift, bringing with it perception, appropriation and evidence of justification. This sublapsarian view is usually known as ‘justification from eternity’. This is what has come to be called Calvinism, though the saints of all times have held to it. For Haykin, it is rank ‘Hyper-Calvinism.’ Taking the example of John Brine, who lived in the next century to Keach and thus has nothing to do with his story, Haykin argues that if justification from eternity were true, saving …
