...and agreeable to the Divine Perfections ; tot fome things imply a Repugnancy of being or fubfifting 5 as for a thing to be and not to be at the fame time, or to be in two or more diftant Places at once $ which is tq be one, and not one. Thefe...

...fountain of action, fhould both act and be quiefcent at the fame time; this being as much a contradiction as for a thing to be and not to be at the fame time: and confequently, if the Father, or the Holy Ghoft, did at any time act in, by, or upon...

...present conscious, my conviction is reducible to this axiom, or coincident with it, " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at " the same time." Now, when I say, I trust entirely to the clear report of my memory, I mean a good deal more than, "...

...are perfect ; or to say that nil men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. Sec. IV. ...Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently...

...are perfect ; or to say that all men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. S«c. IV.... Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently...

...He proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, which, he says, is the foundation of speculative truth. The other is, that nothing is without a sufficient...

...which are absolutely impossible, and others which are only so exparte; as it is absolutely impossible for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time : But for a stone to move naturally upward, is only impossible ex parte materife; but it is not impossible...

...or contradictions ; for instance, that he cannot cause two and two to be five : that he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time : but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not to be at another, involves no absurdity....

...to such dignity as to have divine perfections ascribed to it; he cannot make contradictions true ; a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; or make a thing not to have been that has been ; but then these are no prejudices to his omnipotence,...

...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction. For it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity. Therefore the Gospel did not call Adam after his fall...