By a "high Calvinist" we mean one who holds the supralapsarian view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

The supralapsarian holds a more heroic and a more logical view of the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Puritan] Reference

It is rare to find these days a supralapsarian walking the streets where the intelligentsia live.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Puritan] Reference

The rigorists consequently rejected this modification too, advancing an argument labeled supralapsarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

At the present day it is probably safe to say that not more than one Calvinist in a hundred holds the supralapsarian view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

There is, of course, mystery in connection with either system; but the supralapsarian system seems to pass beyond mystery and into contradiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

Assembly, while they clearly imply the infralapsarian view, were yet so framed as to avoid offence to those who adopted the supralapsarian theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

One of the leading motives in the supralapsarian scheme is to emphasize the idea of discrimination and to push this idea into the whole of God's dealings with men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

Opponents usually stress the supralapsarian system since it is the one which without explanation is more likely to conflict with man's natural feelings and impressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

At the Synod of Dort 1618-1619, which rejected Arminianism, infralapsarians were in the majority, but the Arminians tried to depict all the Calvinists as proponents of the “repulsive” supralapsarian doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I am not a Calvinist « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

In some den of an apartment I will no doubt find the cockroach of enlightenment, a supralapsarian dispensationalist with whom I will share a love of Yeats and Brahms, and we will debate in sonorous and unending Spanish sentences of desultory, copious punctuation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changes and Vicissitudes of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing] Reference

Calvin's successor in Geneva, Theodore Beza, was also a strict supralapsarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church] Reference

Calvin, then, is a supralapsarian; the Fall was necessary; and our first parents, like ourselves, could not have avoided sinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Most assuredly he may; but does it please him, according to the high supralapsarian notion of Calvin, to create myriads of men and angels, to the end that they may be eternally damned?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference

Had he felt the need of an implicit faith amid the welter of sectarianism and the jargon of its turbulent schisms, six principle men, peculiar people, seed and snake baptists, supralapsarian dogmatists?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2] Reference

This is the supralapsarian view of the order of the divine purposes, and as it is the only passage in Scripture which is adduced as directly asserting that theory, its proper interpretation is of special interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference

Samuel Rutherford, and David Dickson, the author of Therapeutica Sacia, and many other eminent divines of that time, a supralapsarian, he was far from exacting in others a rigid conformity to his particular opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2] Reference

A genuine Calvinist ought to be a supralapsarian; in other terms, the Fall was decreed as means to an end; it did not first appear in God's sight to be the sufficient cause why, if He chose, He might select some from the "massa damnata," leaving others to their decreed doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

CALVINISM), the system evolved by Calvin is essentially supralapsarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

A clearly supralapsarian formula, but instead settled on one with infralapsarian elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

(the Westminster Assembly), was a zealous supralapsarian; the great majority of its members, however, were on the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

That Santa Claus is a supralapsarian nobody, I’m sure, needs to be reminded, but I will point out that from time to time, when he felt he had more energy than usual, Santa liked to engage Mrs. Whishtablount in a debate about these matters.) Please Mrs. Whishtablount!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing] Reference

The “supralapsarian” predestinarianism of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference