foreordination

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The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it come over me all at once, Maria, that the doctrine of foreordination holds good with things as well as people.

From Clover and Blue Grass by Hall, Eliza Calvert

To bring the passage forward on behalf of universal foreordination is to assume the point in debate, and it is therefore inadmissible.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

In the first place, we object to the doctrine of universal foreordination because, if adhered to, it makes science and philosophy impossible.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

Both in Paradise Lost and in the Treatise of Christian Doctrine he enlarges with much dogmatism and some arrogance on the difference between foreknowledge and foreordination.

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir