predestinate

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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.

From Time Magazine Archive

This idea, moreover, accords with the Scriptures:—“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”

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

Byron, the predestinate wanderer, and Rousseau, who never found rest, who complained that his birth was but the beginning of his misfortunes, le premier de mes malheurs—these are types of the less fortunate class.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen

"Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John