sb. and a. Theol. rare. [See SUPER- 8, and cf. SUBLAPSARIAN.] = SUPRALAPSARIAN.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., III. xv. (1713), 209. The Religion of the Superlapsareans, the Object whereof is Infinite Power unmodified by either Justice or Goodness.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Disc. Election, IV. viii. Wks. 1682, II. 305. Those that are called Superlapsarians, they say, Man came up into God’s mind first without the consideration of the Fall.
1807–8. Syd. Smith, Plymley’s Lett., Wks. 1859, II. 137/1. Every sublapsarian, and superlapsarian, and semi pelagian clergyman.
