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  • Though the word, being considered in the language whereof it is, seems not to give occasion to any suspicion, yet the change of it from pre-ordained into pre-ordinated is not to be supposed to be for nothing in him who is expert at these weapons To ordain is either “ordinare ut aliquid fiat,” or “ordinem in factis statuere,” or, according to some, “subjectum disponere ad finem.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • In the above account of the doctrine propounded by St. Thomas, a number of his nice abstractions are left out: for example, he distinguishes prudence as concerned with means to good ends, which it belongs to another virtue to assign: "ad prudentiam pertinet non præstituere finem virtutibus moralibus, sed de his disponere quæ sunt ad finem."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • * Itaque omnes homines in peccato concipiuntur, et filii irae nascuntur, inepti ad omne bonum salutare, propensi ad malum, in peccatis mortui, et peccati servi; et absque Spiritus Sancti regenerantis gratia, ad Deum redire, naturam depravatam corrigere, vel ad ejus correctionem se disponere nec volunt, nec possunt.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * [Sanctificetur nomen tuum] oramus et efficere velit Deus, ut eum nos aliique, in eis, quibuscunque se notum nobis facit, glorificare valeamus; atque ad suam ipsius gloriam omnia dirigere velit ac disponere.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Deum redire, naturam depravatam corrigere, vel ad ejus correctionem se disponere nec volunt, nec possunt.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • [Sanctificetur nomen tuum] oramus et efficere velit Deus, ut eum nos aliique, in eis, quibuscunque se notum nobis facit, glorificare valeamus; atque ad suam ipsius gloriam omnia dirigere velit ac disponere.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Invenire etiam barbari solent, disponere et ornare non nisi eruditus.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. David Hume 1743

  • Et ad primum, quod attmec, falsum est pror et dulcedinem ex famiiiaritate cum Deo re - sultantem miriiice disponere nos ad Deum propter ipsum amandum.

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

  • To me it is no less than a matter of admiration how Camero could so far forget himself as to say, (965) that in things pertaining unto religion, _dirigere atque disponere penes magistratum est proprie, penes ecclesiasticos ministerium atque executio proprie_, telling us further, that the directing and disposing of such things doth then only belong to ecclesiastical persons when the church suffereth persecution, or when the magistrate permitteth that the matter be judged by the church.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Union, "etc., and the advocates for restriction maintain that the use of the word" may "imports discretion to admit or to reject; and that in this discretion is wrapped up another -- that of prescribing the terms and conditions of admission in case you are willing to admit:" _Cujus est dare ejus est disponere_. "

    American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899

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