...and then destroy it ; but he cannot create a world and not create it at the same time. He cannot make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; he cannot make two and two five ; nor a triangle and circle of the same linear shape, because these...

...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...

...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it....

...a thing remains without the essence ; that is, without itself;" and also that " this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be at the same time and in the same respect." The doctrine of transubstantiation is against the nature and essence of a...

...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it....

...belongs to omnipotence to give to error the effect of truth, on the minds of free agents, than to cause a thing to be, and not to be. at the same time. A law without rewards or punishments cannot be made as influential on moral beings as a law with sanctions,...

...can do all things which are in their nature possible. Contradictions are impossibilities. To cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, is an impossibility. To make a circle square, and a square round ; to make happiness misery, and misery...

...great law of logic, which logicians call the Principle of Contradiction, viz., that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same tune; or, as Schiller expresses it, that it is impossible for ten to be both ten and twelve; a truth...

...can do all things which are in their nature possible. Contradictions are impossibilities. To cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, is an impossibility. To make a circle square, and a square round ; to make happiness misery, and misery...

...sovereignty of the divine omnipotence that ever lived, it is said, " God cannot work contradictions, as make a thing to be and not to be at the same time, to make a part greater than the whole ; to make what is past present, or what is present future." (Lecture...