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They say, to what purpose are praying and striving and attending on means, if all was irreversibly determined by God before? But to say that all was determined before these prayers and striving is a very wrong way of speaking, and begets those ideas in the mind which correspond with no realities with respect to God. His decrees of our everlasting state were not before our prayers and strivings, for these are as much present with God from all eternity as they are the moment they are present with us. They are present as part of his decree, or rather as the same, and they did as really exist in eternity with respect to God as much at one time as another. Therefore we can no more fairly argue that these will be in vain because God has foredetermined, than we can that they would be in vain if they existed as soon as the decree; for so they do, inasmuch as they are a part of it. - WJE 13:248–49

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CURRENT TERMS & REFERENCES

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Term Set A: pray praying strive striving means

Term Set B: decree decrees determined determined determined

Max Distance Between Terms = 10

Reference List A/B

1:263 - Freedom of the Will (WJEO 1)
1:379 - Freedom of the Will (WJEO 1)
13:216 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:233 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:248 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:383 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:537 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
14:172 - Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729 (WJEO 14)
14:174 - Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729 (WJEO 14)
14:175 - Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729 (WJEO 14)
16:130 - Letters and Personal Writings (WJEO 16)
18:315 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 501-832) (WJEO 18)
19:98 - Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738 (WJEO 19)
19:370 - Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738 (WJEO 19)
23:578 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 1153-1360) (WJEO 23)
27:6 - Controversies Notebook (WJEO 27)
37:5 - Documents on the Trinity, Grace and Faith (WJEO 37)
42:20 - Sermons, Series II, 1723-1727 (WJEO 42)
43:32 - Sermons, Series II, 1728-1729 (WJEO 43)
49:17 - Sermons, Series II, 1734 (WJEO 49)
54:28 - Sermons, Series II, 1739 (WJEO 54)

Reference List B/A

13:216 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:233 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:248 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:312 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
13:537 - The Miscellanies: (Entry Nos. a-z, aa-zz, 1-500) (WJEO 13)
14:174 - Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729 (WJEO 14)
14:175 - Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729 (WJEO 14)
16:787 - Letters and Personal Writings (WJEO 16)
18:315 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 501-832) (WJEO 18)
18:316 - The Miscellanies, (Entry Nos. 501-832) (WJEO 18)
27:6 - Controversies Notebook (WJEO 27)
33:3 - Misrepresentations Corrected Draft (WJEO 33)
37:5 - Documents on the Trinity, Grace and Faith (WJEO 37)
40:20 - Autobiographical and Biographical Documents (WJEO 40)
42:20 - Sermons, Series II, 1723-1727 (WJEO 42)
43:32 - Sermons, Series II, 1728-1729 (WJEO 43)
51:6 - Sermons, Series II, 1736 (WJEO 51)
54:28 - Sermons, Series II, 1739 (WJEO 54)
55:19 - Sermons, Series II, January-June 1740 (WJEO 55)

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CUMULATIVE TERMS & REFERENCES

Term Set A: means, pray, praying, strive, striving

Term Set B: decree, decrees, determined

Reference List: 1:263 1:379 13:216 13:233 13:248 13:312 13:383 13:537 14:172 14:174 14:175 16:130 16:787 18:315 18:316 19:98 19:370 23:578 27:6 33:3 37:5 40:20 42:20 43:32 49:17 51:6 54:28 55:19