"Foreordination" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it will necessitate my saying certain things which I have said to you before, I must outline briefly that body of doctrine which goes by the name of "Evangelical." I will not go back two or three hundred years to include in it such dogmas as Foreordination, Election, the Damnation of non-Elect or non-Baptized Infants, though these doctrines still remain in the creeds. I will take what must be considered the simpler and fairer course of confining myself ...
— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage
... abundantly justifies the title of his new book, "The Conflict of Color"—the seeming foreordination of some readjustment of racial relations if present tendencies continue—when he asserts that while the white races double {271} in eighty years, the yellow or brown double in sixty, and the black ...
— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe
... foreordination Warwick attached no weight whatever. He had seen God's heel planted for four long years upon the land which had nourished slavery. Had God ordained the crime that the punishment might follow? It would have been easier for Omnipotence to prevent ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt
... entered into a very unintelligible explanation of a subject which constitutes, in defiance of common sense and of the plainest teaching of the gospel, the leading dogma of Presbyterianism; namely, foreordination, or the eternal decree of every man's election or reprobation, irrespective of free will, good works, or even the all-saving merits ...
— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley
... his wooden shoes, with scarce a thought beyond his daily toil. His Sunday is a fete for dancing and recreation. Go through New England, and you will find the laborer, as he lays his stone fence, discussing the consistency of foreordination with free will, or perchance settling some more practical mooted point in politics. On Sunday this laborer gets up his wagon, and takes his wife and family to church, to hear two or three sermons, in each of which there are more elements ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe |
