Her pride will be less wounded by submitting to that course of things, which now predestinates our independence, than by yielding the points in controversy to her rebellious subjects.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
According to the Apostle, the potter symbolizes him who predestinates.
"The Ordinance of Covenanting"
John Cunningham
The elements of necessity and freewill are reconciled in the higher power of an omnipresent Providence, that predestinates the whole in the moral freedom of the integral parts.
"Character"
Samuel Smiles