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Definition of Foreordains
1. foreordain [v] - See also: foreordain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreordains
Literary usage of Foreordains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1886)
"God foreknows nothing subject to contingencies, but He foresees, foreordains,
and accomplishes all things by an unchanging, eternal, and efficacious will. ..."
2. Letters Addressed to Rev. Wilbur Fisk, D.D. ... in Reply to a Sermon on by David H. Metcalf (1832)
"Just as though the phrase, " God foreordains whatsoever comes to pass," means
the same thing as ... Now we deny that the expression, " God foreordains," &c. ..."
3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"... or of the decrees of ( iod comprehended in His eternal purpose whereby He
foreordains whatsoever comes to pass, is therefore not found in the NT at all. ..."
4. Selected Works by Ulrich Zwingli (1901)
"This I would have understood thus: God freely with himself settles upon, prejudges
and foreordains (for by this word the word for " purposing " is ..."
5. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1918)
"They say, decidedly, that God foreordains sin only by permitting it. Still, they
reject, as stoutly as their sterner confreres, the Arminian view, ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Thus He often indirectly foreordains what men shall do. ... it will be in such
a sense that it can he said that God foreordains •whatsoever cometh to pass. ..."
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