predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
“For whom he foreknew, them he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
I looked into their faces, grown at once grave and predestinate; the shadow was there, a cloud upon their brows, a veil across the brightness of their eyes.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Indeed, to give such a meaning to the word predestinate, is at once to take away the principal scriptures quoted by the reviewer, and others, to prove Calvinistic election.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
Defining the church as the body of the predestinate, and starting a campaign against indulgences, Huss soon fell under the ban of his superiors.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
And right now no one seems to posses the same sense of predestinated greatness that accompanied Warne, Murali and Tendulkar.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2011
Our text is one of the strongest instances of this kind, “He hath chosen us from the foundation of the world, that we should be holy—having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons,” &c.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
The chief man of the church was found, upon closer acquaintance, to be the subject of a profound conviction that he was the individual predestinated to superintend our farming interests.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
Those angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
She thanked and complimented him warmly, but without being very much astonished at his success, for she began to think he was predestinated.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
Within it by Thy predestinating knowledge and might, He had set forth all that is essential and obligatory for the upraising of Thy Cause in this world below.
From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre
His existence appears as fashioned in essence and end by predestinating power, and the Eternal "takes the responsibility."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
