predestination

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Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines--election, predestination. reprobation--were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom.

They therefore as to right belongd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate; As if Predestination over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown.

Great criminals bear bout them a kind of predestination which makes them surmount all obstacles, which makes them escape all dangers, up to the moment which a wearied Providence has marked as the rock of their impious fortunes.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

I told her I hadn't -- that it was a matter of predestination coupled with inveterate Sloanishness and I wasn't a match for both combined.

caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination ,

Stoutness and slimness seem to be matters of predestination ," said Anne.

Oh, well, that's another instance of predestination ," laughed Anne, as they went down the garret stairs.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.

offers an easily-accessible, chatty discussion of what it means to be Catholic, and considers the Catholic faith and its teachings about predestination. original sin, abortion and other major issues--discussions usually couched in nearly-indecipherable language.

However, her tendency to dwell on freedom may reflect feelings of confinement rooted in the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination. which would have been familiar from her youth.

Even those who claim to believe in predestination take the action in their practical life.