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Supralapsarian

Election and reprobation logically precede the decree of the fall; the order favoured by Twisse and Rutherford within Westminster's permitted range.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Order of Decrees is Deliberately-Permits-Both. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Who holds this position

Schools (2)

Scottish Commissioners The Supralapsarians

Personas (5)

William Twisse 1577–1646 Alexander Henderson 1583–1646 Samuel Rutherford c. 1600–1661 George Gillespie 1613–1648 Thomas Goodwin 1600–1680

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Order of Decrees.

The Order of the Decrees 1644–1645 Did God decree the election of particular persons before or after the fall?

Other positions on Order of Decrees

Deliberately-Permits-Both WCF WCF III's language is deliberately drafted to permit both supra- and infralapsarianism without imposing either. Infralapsarian Election and reprobation logically follow the decree of the fall; the order held by the English majority within Westminster's permitted range.