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

It was one of those apparently chance movements that have vital consequences, and that have always made me believe in the old Calvinistic creed of foreordination.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

In his discourses he ignored all questions of theology, such as faith, free-will, foreordination, the final perseverance of the saints, and such like, and got right down to matters involved in our every-day life.

From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander

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

As a proof of universal foreordination, the passage proves nothing.

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