 So were created, nor can justly accuse Their maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 57by John Milton - 1899 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
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...causality in Paradise Lost: As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown." In Scripture, Milton claims in De Doctrina, the term predestination is used to refer not to reprobation... | |
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...over-rul'd Thir will, disposed by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without the least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or aught by me immutably... | |
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