John Calvin:

God's foreknowledge and predestination are not the same; for foreknowledge is simple knowledge, but predestination is a decree.

— John Calvin Early Modern

Protestant reformer

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 22, Section 1

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