John Davenant on the lapsarian question

[Reformed Covenanter]

First, whereas he troubleth himself with distinguishing the Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian Doctrine, calling them Supralapsarians who in ordering the eternal decrees of God concerning Election and Preterition or Reprobation place them before the consideration of the fall, and those Sublapsarians who place them after; this pains might well have been spared. For Priorities and Posteriorities in the eternal immanent decrees of God are but imaginations of man’s weak reason, and framed diversly (nay contrarily) as well by Schoolmen and Papists as by Protestants or those which are termed Calvinists; and finally they have little or no use in this controversy, as hath been formerly shewed.

Aquinas thought it no such matter of moment whether Predestination be considered before man’s fall and state of misery or after: ...

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John Davenant on the lapsarian question

First, whereas he troubleth himself with distinguishing the Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian Doctrine, calling them Supralapsarians who in ordering the eternal decrees of God concerning Election and…

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