… aired my views against it in many publications and lectures. I am particularly suspicious of the Supralapsarian kind as found in Calvin’s Institutes, Book III, Chap. XXIII:7 and his Articles Concerning Predestination. I reject Calvin’s studies regarding predestination and election which leave out the covenant of grace and salvation in Christ as in Calvin’s works against Pighius. Not that I care for Pighius, but two wrongs do not make a right. Concerning confronting hearers with …
Posts Tagged Supralapsarian
Banner on Hypers
Nov 13
… of the hypercalvinistic preachers”, calling those Hyper-Calvinists whom he believes adopt “a supralapsarian view that God`s decree of election preceded his decree to permit the Fall of man.” Hoad is convinced that it was Gill’s influence ‘which was a major factor in the retention of a High Calvinist theology’ in the Baptist churches.
Peter Naylor, in his history of the Particular-cum-Strict Baptist churches entitled Picking Up a Pin For the Lord, equates …
Welcome
Aug 17
… fine preacher, pastor, evangelist and winner of 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.
A second aim of this web site …
Review of Amyraut Affirmed
Sep 15
… to the Calvin of 1559. Looking for a ‘mature’ Calvin leaves Berkof viewing Calvin as a Supralapsarian but Helm, Clifford, and Kendall see him respectively as a fence-sitter in theological matters, an Amyraldian and an Arminian. Maria Faber even denies that Calvin believed in predestination!
Clifford defines Amyraldianism quite inadequately in Fullerite terms arguing that the atonement is sufficient for all and efficient for the elect. Calvin denounced such teaching …
… externals and a cold and heartless legal discipline for both saints and sinners depending on a Supralapsarian fatalism. Hooker’s preaching was evangelistic and designed to woo the sinner to Christ. Travers discipline was designed to protect the believer from the world, the flesh and the devil by a legal straight-jacket. Then Travers criticised Hooker’s view of the Scriptures. Hooker taught that God’s Word moved no sinner unless the Author-Spirit awakened him through it so that he …
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575)
Aug 17
… indeed, all views that implied Christ’s corporeal presence in the elements. Zwingli was Supralapsarian in his views of election, 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 …
… is no Aristotelian Scholastic but warns against its snares. This is a timely word to present Supralapsarian Reformed men on both sides of the Atlantic who rebuke those whom they call ‘Hypos,’ for not presenting their theology in Aristotelian terms.
Believer Baptism
Stanley Fowler deals with John Gill’s Doctrine of Believer Baptism in Chapter Three and bravely touches areas of Gill’s teaching which will surprise many Baptists. Unlike two other contributors in the …
