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
Oliver Cromwell never believed more radically in the foreordination of all human actions than did he.
From The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It by Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech
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 Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Not one word about believing in the Trinity, or in foreordination or predestination.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
The same doctrine is held by the younger Hodge—that foreknowledge involves foreordination.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
