foreknow

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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

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)

It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.

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

When they sought for the cause, it was mainly in order to control the effect or if it was uncontrollable, to foreknow and adapt their conduct to it.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart

"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 Drummond, Henry