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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
predestinate .
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Examples
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But this also is unnatural; and besides, the word predestinated has its limitation or explanation in the following clause, "according to the good pleasure of his will. '
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860
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“Latet anguis” also in the adding “grass” of that exegetical term “pre-ordinated,” — predestinated, that is, pre-ordinated.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Nay, this doctrine does not even teach what kind of men in general God has predestinated, which is properly the doctrine of the Gospel; but it embraces within itself a certain mystery, which is known only to God, who is the Predestinater, and in which mystery are comprehended what particular persons and how many he has decreed to save and to condemn.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956
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It is therefore better to say that the antecedence implied in the participle "predestinated" is to be referred to the Person not in
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Others refer the antecedence implied in the participle "predestinated," not to the fact of being the Son of
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Wonder if I'm "predestinated," as old Jed'diah says, to git the feller to it?
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"predestinated," just as this participle "made," implies antecedence, yet there is a difference.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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But Christie regarded me as altogether a doomed and predestinated child of perdition, who was sure to hold on my course, and drag downwards whosoever might attempt to afford me support.
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Paracelsus goes farther, and will have his physician [2848] predestinated to this man's cure, this malady; and time of cure, the scheme of each geniture inspected, gathering of herbs, of administering astrologically observed; in which Thurnesserus and some iatromathematical professors, are too superstitious in my judgment.
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All cannot be happy at once; for, because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatness, and must obey the swing of that wheel, not moved by intelligencies, but by the hand of God, whereby all estates arise to their zenith and vertical points, according to their predestinated periods.
Religio Medici 2007
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