foreordaining

Updated: May 19, 2025

For by foreordaining of Providence there rested in my breast certain knowledge, the real use of which was only now being revealed. "'Harken to me, Abdul, I said, 'and I shall show you a way out of your difficulties a way, too, that will lead to the attainment of your heart's desire.

Edmund Mitchell - Tales of Destiny

And also, by the same sovereign will, has passed by, and left others in their sins, foreordaining them to bear the just punishment of their own iniquities; as is evident from Rom. ix, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18; Eph. i, 4, 6, 9, 11; Jude verse 4; and according to Confess, chap. 3; larger Cat. quest. 12, 13; shorter Catechism quest. 7.

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