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- Distinctive of Hussey's views were supralapsarianism, the doctrine of irresistible grace, and a christology derived in part from Thomas Goodwin.
- But anyone who may read his works would be struck by how difficult it is to make him fit into a received definition of supralapsarianism.
- From being an advocate of supralapsarianism in the most extreme form, as in his controversy with Conrad Vorstius, Piscator became a pronounced Arminian.
- Supralapsarianism is the doctrine that God's decree of predestination for salvation and reprobation logically precedes his preordination of the human race's fall into sin.
- The Westminster Confession of Faith also teaches ( in Hodge's words " clearly impl [ ies ] " ) the infralapsarian view, but is sensitive to those holding to supralapsarianism.
- They proposed that although God's decree to save only some was indeed absolute and unconditional, it had occurred after the fall ( proposing infralapsarianism rather than Beza's supralapsarianism ).
- Scholastic Calvinists have sometimes debated precisely when, relative to the decree for the Fall of man, God did his electing & ndash; see supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism & ndash; though such distinctions are not often emphasized in modern Calvinism.
- He claimed that supralapsarianism was contrary to the Confession and Catechism and that " supra-and infralapsarianism, basically amount to the same thing . " Arminius put forward his own view on predestination which he held was in concordance with the Confession and the Catechism.
- He held to the classic supralapsarianism dictum : " Quod primum est in intentione, ultimum est in executione . . . quod ultimum est in executione, primum est in intentione " ( that which is first in intention is last in execution . . . that which is last in execution is first in intention ) and stressed these repeatedly in his writings.