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

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

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

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)

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