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
His tales are tales of the conscience: he is obsessed with the thought of sin, with the doctrines of foreordination and total depravity.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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 Wilbur Fisk
Oliver Cromwell never believed more radically in the foreordination of all human actions than did he.
From The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It by Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech
But if foreknowledge involves foreordination, then by the laws of logic He has foreordained sin.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
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