foreknow

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See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”

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

And besides, he has a laboured argument to prove, that God could not foreknow the future volitions of moral agents, unless he views them as “necessarily connected with something else that is evident.” pp. 115-117.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

But men by natural inclination seek to foreknow future events; and this belongs to divination.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.

From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van

Hath he chosen us because he did foreknow that we would be holy, and without blame, as men think?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh