Book Review: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, by Loraine Boettner (3)

The professor is a strong infralapsarianist. It could not very well be otherwise, his conception of the decrees and providence of God in their bearing on sin being what it is. This conception and the professor's infralapsarianism certainly go hand in hand. The two spring from the same sentiment, the same striving -- the striving, namely, to mollify the severity of the sovereignty of God insofar as it turns on sin and rep­robation. According to the infralapsarian view, the order of the decrees...