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

The various explanations and definitions that have been given to foreordination, have already been noticed.

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

It was one of those apparently chance movements that have vital consequences, and that have always made me believe in the old Calvinistic creed of foreordination.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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)

But if the doctrine of universal foreordination is true, we can neither blame the one nor praise the other.

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