foreknow

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But when he foreknows an event, he presents us merely a form of his infinite intelligence, exerting no causative, and consequently no necessitating influence whatever.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

Whatever God foreknows or foresees, will undoubtedly come to pass.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

The Pelagians asserted that man works out his eternal salvation of his own free will, and that consequently God merely foreknows but does not fore-ordain who shall be saved.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

There shall not be a scullion but foreknows it Like the world's end.

From Two plays for dancers by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

He foreknows, and foretels the ruin of Malacca.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Scott, Walter, Sir