Meanings
- archaicnot comparableobsoleterareIn an antecedaneous way: precedingly.
–– Is that which we affirm to be antecedaneously necessary unto justifying faith.
1816, John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith2 more examples
We will therefore suppose that those unto whom the word is declared, have antecedaneously thereunto, all the help which the light of nature will afford.
1826, John Owen, The Works of John Owen, volume 2, page 352There is, as was said, no certain measure or degree of these accidents or consequents of conviction to be prescribed unto any as antecedaneously necessary to sincere conversion and sound believing.
1841, John Owen, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit
Origin
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