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

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

I do not charge Dr. Musgrave with holding this inference as a doctrine, and yet it is very clearly asserted in an argument designed to prove the Calvinistic doctrine of foreordination.

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

It is said that God’s foreknowledge involved foreordination.

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

What other man has come to earth with such appointment, clothed with the authority of such foreordination?

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward