foreknow

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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

As one in nerves, and pulse, and spirits bad, Who of some frequent fever waits the blow, E'en so I felt—for how could I foreknow Such near end of the half-joys I have had?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Hath he chosen us because he did foreknow that we would be holy, and without blame, as men think?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Thou that by Set turns and changes from Thy high And glorious throne dost here below Rule all, and all things dost foreknow!

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

Without this assumption it would be impossible in the Thomistic system to find in the absolute will of God an infallible medium by which He can foreknow future sins.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur