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Originally Posted by Neogillist  Well, if you go with that definition, you make John Gill into a low calvinist because he leaned clearly on the infra view. |
Gill is quite clearly in the supralapsarian camp.
"And here is the proper place to discuss that question, Whether men were considered, in the mind of God, in the decree of election, as fallen or unfallen; as in the corrupt mass, through the fall; or in the pure mass of creatureship, previous to it; and as to be created? There are some that think that the latter, so considered, were the objects of election in the divine mind; who are called supralapsarians; though of these some are of opinion that man was considered, as to be created, or creatable; and others, as created, but not fallen. The former seems best; that of the vast number of individuals that came up in the divine mind, that his power could create, those that he meant to bring into being, he designed to glorify himself by them in some way or another; the decrees of election, respecting any part of them; may be distinguished into the decree of the end, and the decree of the means." (
2. Of the Special Decrees of God, Relating to Rational Creatures, Angels, and Men; and Particularly of Election.)