foreordained

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I was lulled to slumber on the squalls of infants dead, foreordained, and predamned.

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  • They read: “Whom God foreknew, he also FOREORDAINED to be conformed to the image of his Son and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Rom. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • What we had convinced ourselves was on track to be --- indeed, but for the formality of a game in which victory was deemed foreordained, already was --- the best team in the nation was beaten by a better team ... on its home field. —  SB Nation Featured Posts
  • The irony is that, with such a tangle, the conclusion is foreordained: women will seem enigmatic, inconsistent, and irremediably opaque. —  Neuroanthropology
  • The decease that the Savior was then so soon to accomplish was the voluntary surrender of His life in fulfilment of a purpose at once exalted and foreordained, not a death by which He would passively die through conditions beyond His control. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
  • But if the day of his death were foreordained, at all events the year in which it would occur was uncertain, and it was easy for the magician to arrange that it should not take place prematurely. —  History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
 

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