predestinating love

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  • verb Present participle of predestinate.

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Examples

  • But probably God's foreknowledge of His own people means His "peculiar, gracious, complacency in them," while His "predestinating" or

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Sandy dislikes just this aspect of Miss Brodie, fearing that she wants to act like the predestinating God of Calvinism and decide in advance who will be saved and who will be damned.

    The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

  • Sandy dislikes just this aspect of Miss Brodie, fearing that she wants to act like the predestinating God of Calvinism and decide in advance who will be saved and who will be damned.

    The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

  • Himself in Himself, after a fashion which we can neither describe nor conceive, predestinating all things, formed them as He pleased, bestowing harmony on all things, and assigning them their own place, and the beginning of their creation.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Allah as predestinating men severally to salvation or damnation, while he also describes him as β€œthe Com - passionate One, the Merciful.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

  • This is the free grace and favour of God towards the man Christ Jesus β€” predestinating, designing, and taking him into actual union with the person of the Son, without respect unto, or foresight of, any precedent dignity or merit in him, 1 Pet. i.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • The decree of God's electing and predestinating love, though discriminating and particular, is, nevertheless, very extensive.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • For Beza in many places sharply contends that God, when predestinating and reprobating man, considers him, not as created, not as fallen, but as to be created, and he claims that this is indicated by the term "lump," used in Rom.ix. 21, and he charges great absurdities on those who hold different views.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 1560-1609 1956

  • They have differed from Christianity in that their predestinating, determining force, instead of being qualified by any play of free-will, or any feasible plan of ultimate and superabounding good, has been a real fatalism, changeless, hopeless, remorseless.

    Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

  • But Christ's members are distinguished from others by eternal predestination, which does not imply anything in the predestined, but only in God predestinating, as we have stated in the

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

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