foreordain

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Is there no difference between a “purpose in relation to a thing,” and the foreordaining or decreeing that the thing shall be?

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

For by foreordaining of Providence there rested in my breast certain knowledge, the real use of which was only now being revealed.

From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund

We need to distinguish between the foreordaining to adoption, and the actual act of adoption which took place when we believed in Christ.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

The noun, according to the same authority, denotes the act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the act of God, by which He hath from eternity unchangeably appointed or determined whatsoever comes to pass.

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