The decrees of God are his eternal purposes, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
He applies this doctrine to sinful actions in the following manner: "Now, that the whole of Pharaoh's conduct had not only been foreknown but foreordained is indisputable.
Again: "The decrees of God relate to all future things without exception; whatever is done in time was foreordained before the beginning of time.
Yes: from all eternity, he hath, for his own glory, unchangeably foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
The being who endowed him with this faculty has foreordained and brings to pass, by a well-directed agency, every movement of that faculty.
Musgrave, as we have seen, asserts explicitly that God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
For they are not all created with a similar destiny, but eternal life isforeordained for some, and eternal damnation for others.
They have done, throughout the past, and are doing now, precisely what God, in his wise and holy counsel, foreordained they should do.
Yet she spoke of the tarn, where he must inevitably meet a foreordained fate.
She wiped the tears from her eyes, looked straight at him, and intoned slowly - "One born of man shall aid her, and when you follow him it will be to a foreordained destiny.
Thus hath it been foreordained in the realm of God’s Revelation, by the behest of Him Who is the All-Glorious, the Most Powerful.
It hath been decreed by Us that the Word of God and all the potentialities thereof shall be manifested unto men in strict conformity with such conditions as have been foreordained by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come.
The measure of the Revelation of which He was the bearer had been clearly foreordained by Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Powerful.
It was foreordained that you should shed this man's blood; foreordained that, by digging into that old pit of pestilence, you should set the contagion loose again.
In and through him we were foreordained to the sonship: sonship, even had we never sinned, never could we reach without him.
The putting of a son in his true, his foreordained place, has outward relations as well as inward reality; the outward depends on the inward, arises from it, and reveals it.
Predestined to be saved, nothing that he can do can unsave him; foreordained to heaven, nothing he could do could lead him hell-wards.
In general, we may say that it is foreordained in our biological destiny not only what form, but also what colouring we ought to attain in the course of our individual evolution, when we finally arrive at mature development.
I wonder is it foreordained that there shall be one child in every family whom "nobody can do anything with?
Is a sweet temper foreordained to be incompatible with sweet cupboards?
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son"; 1 Pet.
This purpose cannot be conditioned upon any merit or faith of those who are chosen, since there is no such merit,--faith itself being God's gift and foreordained by him.
Mark, it was foreordained or concluded on between the Father and the Son before the world began.
The door banged, and again the house in the dunes shuddered as the storm fell upon it with momentarily trebled ferocity; as if, cheated of its foreordained prey, it would rend apart his frail refuge to regain him.
The measure of the Revelation of which He was the Bearer had been clearly foreordained by Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Powerful.
Because it would be foreordained that I should knock you down,” replied Mr. Dey, with a smile.
When God sent forth His Prophet Muḥammad, on that day the termination of the prophetic cycle was foreordained in the knowledge of God.
The place of Jesus' birth was truly according to and in fulfillment of prophecy, thus showing that God had foreordained and prepared the conditions for his birth.
God foreordained that all the members of the new creation should be made in the likeness of his beloved Son.
Abrahamic promise, even if it were his, which in fact it was not, since God had foreordained that it should belong to Jacob.
At last by Calchas' counsel Achaea's sons Drew back to the ships, and put from them the thought Of battle, seeing it was not foreordained That Ilium should fall until the might Of war-wise Philoctetes came to aid The Achaean host.
And what kind of love is it to expose innocent posterity to infinite suffering on account of the fall of one man, certainly foreseen and therefore foreordained (foreordained as far at least as being permitted).
For why might there not have been a first command of God, such that everything would go in a foreordained course to a fixed end, if he wished to fix one.
Christ's realization that He was the chosen and foreordained Messiah came to Him gradually.
