foreknow
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It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
Here the prophecy was a long time ahead, and foretold the exact coming of a ball depending on a combination of circumstances which would seem impossible for reason or intuition to foresee and foreknow.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
For as it belongs to his wisdom to foreknow all future events, so it belongs to his power to rule and govern them by his hand.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.”
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
My spirits faint, while I these ills foreknow, And find myself the sad occasion too.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Indeed carnal reason will say that God foreknew what they would do, and so he chose or rejected them.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Do you forget what the Chassid said of the man who foreknew in his lifetime that for him there was to be no heaven?
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
VIII, 29: “Whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son.”
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
But the foreknowing Asas knew in advance that he was coming, and resolved to receive him with all sorts of sorcery, which might give him a high opinion of them.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
To talk of foreknowing a contingent event as certain, which may or may not exist, is an absurdity.”
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
"It seems that anyone can be foreknowing at certain times," he said, trying to smile.
From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
It is true Cuchulain's horses weep tears of blood when he goes forth to his last battle, foreknowing his death; but they are immortal steeds and have divine knowledge of fate.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
I thought that she was kindly sent, In gracious God's foreknowing, To save from fatal detriment, This infant nation growing.
From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley
Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.
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"The fortunes of cities, as well as of men," said Plutarch, "have their certain periods of time prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars."
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Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
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Foreknowledge, on the contrary, has no causality in relation to events foreknown.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan