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

This—viz., that in the light of the drama of the fall, the doctrine of universal foreordination must be given up as a myth which ignores philosophy, and reflects injuriously upon the Divine character.

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

But how can these words prove universal foreordination?

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

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 Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

As to the perplexities that have grown out of the ideas of God's foreknowledge, foreordination, etc., my view is that no such a thing as foreknowledge can be attributed to God.

From From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography by Ashley, George T.