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

All the conflicting opinions and acts in the fiercest controversy that ever raged, this theory traces up to the Divine foreordination.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

It may be used first in the general sense of foreordination.

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

The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this “coigne of vantage,” and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.

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

The more common terms are decree, predestination, foreordination, predetermination, purpose, &c.—These are all authoritative terms, and carry with them the idea of absolute sovereignty.

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