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

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

The objections thus adduced are, in our judgment, quite sufficient to condemn the dogma of universal foreordination.

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

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)

The same doctrine is held by the younger Hodge—that foreknowledge involves foreordination.

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