forepurpose

plural forepurposes · alternative fore-purpose

1. A predetermined purpose

   According to the forepurpose of eternity, which he wrought in Christ Jesus, the Lord of us; [...]

   1827, William Carpenter, Critica Biblica

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   Man in the mind of God, in the eternal foreknowledge and forepurpose of God, man "as he shall be when his becoming shall be complete," is not less but more man than in his inchoate beginnings and in his incomplete processes.

   1911, William Porcher Dubose, The Reason of Life

   Out of his own forepurpose and will, he has cast away some to be damned which would not and should not be saved, and they out of necessity must be damned and so he has particularly redeemed some, and left others to perish.

   2009, Joseph Everett Early, The Life and Writings of Thomas Helwys

   To him the Thunderer: “Thou know'st this council by the rest of those fore-purposes That still inclined me; my cares must still succour the distress Of Troy; …”

   2013, Delphi Complete Works of Homer