foreknow
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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 Albert Taylor Bledsoe
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
From The Leader by H. R. van Dongen
"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
For as it belongs to his wisdom to foreknow all future events, so it belongs to his power to rule and govern them by his hand.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
They could not hope to outdo Shakespeare and foreknow their respective Hamlets; they must slowly make their Hamlets' acquaintance by living with them.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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“But now, do you believe, Mr Liversedge,—I have picked up the words from this fellow—that God elected men because He foreknew them, or that He foreknew because He had elected them?”
From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt
Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
Subsequently, sitting with His disciples over against the temple, He showed how well He foreknew the terrible fate which hung over the capital of His country, and how poignantly He felt it.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker
I recall but one stanza:— "Oft have I walked these woodland ways, Without the blest foreknowing, That underneath the withered leaves The fairest flowers were blowing."
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
But she could not speak, or would not, foreknowing what must happen now that had never happened to her before.
From Stradella by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
"Skroppa herself could not be foreknowing about him!"
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
The splendor of these visions of energy did not prevent Christophe's seeing their danger, and foreknowing whither this change and the growing clamor of the new Marseillaise would lead.
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan
It is true Cuchulain's horses weep tears of blood when he goes forth to his last battle, foreknowing his death; but they are immortal steeds and have divine knowledge of fate.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
Yet, although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.
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Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
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According to that, a certainty must exist in order to be foreknown; and it must be foreknown in order to exist!
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
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