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  • For a discussion of the position of Augustine respecting Predestination and his other doctrines as connected with it, see J.B. Mozley, _A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination_, 1873, a book of great ability.

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

  • Tenses; and therefore that terrible term Predestination, which hath troubled so many weak heads to conceive, and the wisest to explain, is in respect to

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • But in Eternity there is no distinction of Tenses; and therefore that terrible term Predestination, which hath troubled so many weak heads to conceive, and the wisest to explain, is in respect to GOD no prescious16 determination of our Estates to come, but a definitive blast of His Will already fulfilled, and at the instant that He first decreed it; for to His Eternity, which is indivisible and all together, the last Trump is already sounded, the reprobates in the flame, and the blessed in Abraham’s bosome.

    The First Part: Paras 1-35 1909

  • I think most Muslims, for instance, believe in Predestination.

    The Wolf Who Cried Boy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • Like these, it teaches the Unity of the Whole, the divine Presence in all creatures and things (_Ubiquity_), Predestination, which is only one form of _Karma_, and Resurrection, which expresses one phase of

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • Ultimately Mr. Thuesen mourns the decline of mystery in modern life; "Predestination" pays noble tribute to that sense of awe before the divine that theology captures only through a glass darkly.

    Highway To Heaven Marc Arkin 2009

  • There is something appropriate about this continuing theological tradition since, as Peter Thuesen shows in "Predestination," the doctrine played a crucial role in early America and has informed America's religious culture ever since.

    Highway To Heaven Marc Arkin 2009

  • In a very illuminating article on "Predestination," Dr. Benjamin B. Warfield, who in the opinion of the present writer has emerged as the outstanding theologian since John Calvin, tells us that the writers of

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • Then, too, when we stop to consider that among non-Christian religions Mohammedanism has so many millions who believe in some kind of Predestination, that the doctrine of Fatalism has been held in some form or other in several heathen countries, and that the mechanistic and deterministic philosophies have exerted such great influences in England, Germany, and America, we see that this doctrine is at least worthy of careful study.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • For the second kind of Predestination places election, with regard to the end, before the fall; it also places before that event preterition, [or passing by,] which is the first part of reprobation.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

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