We must distinguish the divine preordination from its effect. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
It is used particularly in theology to denote the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
On the first point: this reasoning proves only that the preordination of predestination is not furthered by the prayers of the devout. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The divine preordination cannot in any wise be furthered by the prayers of the devout, since their prayers cannot cause anyone to be predestined. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
If we are speaking of man in the first of these states, there is one reason why he cannot merit eternal life by his natural powers alone, and that is that his merit depends on a divine preordination. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The “germ,” then, is not necessarily a miniature organism, it is “every preordination, every performa - tion of parts capable by itself of determining the exist - ence of a Plant or of an Animal” (ibid.). From Wordnik.com. [GENETIC CONTINUITY] Reference
Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination, and night of their forebeings. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference
Maury Noble were some predestined anti-Christ, urged by a preordination to go everywhere there was to go along the earth and to see all the billions of humans who bred and wept and slew each other here and there upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
That the head can infuse the virtue of his own perfection into her, and she can receive it from him according to the order of preordination and subordination fitly corresponding with it according to the difference of both. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
A merciless preordination had stacked the cards against him again. From Wordnik.com. [The River's End] Reference
Spontaneous generation seems almost as great a puzzle as preordination. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
With Calvin, God's preordination is, if possible, even more fatal to free will. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Your conclusion that all speculation about preordination is idle waste of time is the only wise one; but how difficult it is not to speculate!. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
The alternative conditions here described have often been referred to as illustrating the doctrine of God's foreknowledge and preordination of events. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
We conversed again till the day was near a close; and the things that he strove most to inculcate on my mind were the infallibility of the elect, and the preordination of all things that come to pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner] Reference
Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination and night of their forebeings. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
But I can tell thee there is no such thing as Fortune in the world, nor does anything which takes place there, be it good or bad, come about by chance, but by the special preordination of heaven; and hence the common saying that 'each of us is the maker of his own Fortune.'. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete] Reference
I was possessed of strong and brilliant parts, and a liberal education; and, though I had somehow unaccountably suffered my theological qualifications to fall into desuetude, since my acquaintance with the ablest and most rigid of all theologians, I had nevertheless hopes that, by preaching up redemption by grace, preordination, and eternal purpose, I should yet be enabled to benefit mankind in some country, and rise to high distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner] Reference
I was filled with an intense sense of preordination. ". From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
He found at the same time that his late interview with the soutar had rendered the machinery of his thought-factory no fitter than before for weaving a tangled wisp of loose ends, which was all he could command, into the homogeneous web of a sermon; and at last was driven to his old stock of carefully preserved preordination sermons; where he was unfortunate enough to make choice of the one least of all fitted to awake comprehension or interest in his audience. From Wordnik.com. [Salted with Fire] Reference
He had accomplished the globe with an intensity and curiosity that in any one else would have seemed pedantic, without redeeming spontaneity, almost the self-editing of a human Baedeker; but, in this case, it assumed an air of mysterious purpose and significant design -- as though Maury Noble were some predestined anti-Christ, urged by a preordination to go everywhere there was to go along the earth and to see all the billions of humans who bred and wept and slew each other here and there upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
No preordination in this man's mind, sorry. From Wordnik.com. [NOISE!!!!!] Reference
25. they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because -- it should be therefore. the Lord would slay them -- It was not God's preordination, but their own wilful and impenitent disobedience which was the cause of their destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Within only these last two years my career has, in so many instances, indicated that I am not the master of my own conduct; that no longer able to resist the conviction which is hourly impressed on me, I recognise in every contingency the preordination of my fate. ". From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
Nor can any thing be better founded, or more conclusive, than the opininion, that the Author of all Na - ture, having given to his different creatures 4if - ferent natures, according to the different pur - poses for which they were designed in the scheme of his providence, and every one of these natures including its own peculiar law, whether that of instind or that of reason, the most rational of his human creatures hath irra - diated the earth from time to time, conform - ably to his almighty preordination. From Wordnik.com. [A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps] Reference
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