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

But if foreknowledge involves foreordination, then by the laws of logic He has foreordained sin.

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

The wisdom of God is held as proving universal foreordination.

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

His tales are tales of the conscience: he is obsessed with the thought of sin, with the doctrines of foreordination and total depravity.

From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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