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 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

The Power of God is held as supporting 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

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