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Infralapsarian

Election and reprobation logically follow the decree of the fall; the order held by the English majority 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)

English Presbyterian Majority Cumberland Presbyterians (1810)

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

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “Infralapsarian” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/god_decree/order_of_decrees/infralapsarian/.

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