predestinates

And while this liberty of God is extended to every kind of good, it yet shines the most clearly in the first adoption, whereby he predestinates to himself, those whom he sees fit, out of the ruined mass.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

This, then, is that which is affirmed: God approves and accepts of men in Christ; thereupon he predestinates, calls, and justifies them.

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

Thus, then, he makes it out: — “Whom he foreknows, that is, pre-approves (the word ‘knowledge’ in Scripture frequently importing approbation), as he must needs do those that love him, them he predestinates.”

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

What is afterward added of the qualification of those whom God predestinates, being an intrusion of another false hypothesis, for the confirmation of an assertion of the same alloy, is not of my present consideration.

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

‘Whom he foreknows,’ saith he, that is, pre-approves (the word ‘knowledge’ frequently in Scripture importing approbation), as he must needs do those that love him, ‘these he predestinates to be conformed to the image of his Son;’ and therefore as all things, even his deepest sufferings, wrought together for good unto him, so must they needs do unto those who are predestinated or pre-ordinated by God to a conformity with him.

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

It entirely excludes him from that decree of Predestination which predestinates the end: and it affirms, that men were predestinated to be saved, before Christ was predestinated to save them; and thus it argues, that he is not the foundation of election.

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

In the first book he shows, that though God foresees sin, he predestinates no one to evil, but only to good, or to grace and glory.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

It is quite clear from the Scriptures that God predestinates or foreordains.

The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

Her pride will be less wounded by submitting to the course of things which now predestinates our independence, than by yielding the points in controversy to her rebellious subjects.

America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien

Better, far better, roam the desert or the forest like any other brutes, than educate ourselves and others into the monstrous belief in a God who might have saved the world and would not; who predestinates to endless and unutterable agonies; who has with the one hand peopled Hell with millions of immortal creatures, while with the other has filled Heaven with millions of ransomed sinners, as vile, yea perhaps viler than they.

An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell