...original doctrine to be absurd.' No absurdity can be greater than that the same principle should prove a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; and if, therefore, we can demonstrate that Hume's rule on this subject is equally conclusive both against,...

...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; and secondly, that nothing is without a sufficient...

...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; and secondly, that nothing is without a sufficient...

...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 ; and secondly, that nothing is without a sufficient...

...a contradiction in itself, or to his own holy nature. We hesitate not to say, that God cannot make a thing to be and not to be, at the same time ; or to be both true and false under the same circumstances ; because, being and not being, truth and...

...in the least ^,ce Jiir.hed, that he cannot perform contradictions. It is not an object ot power, to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. No increase of power has the least •cndeniy to produce this contr.u1ic.iion. But every itiing which...

...of ;he Almighty is in the J that he cannot perform contradictions. It is not an object ol power, to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. No increase of power has the least tendency to produce this contradiction. But every thing which -is...

...are absolutely impossible, and others which are only so ex parte ; 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 matericB ; but it is not impossible...

...afford conviction, that he can create. There seems nothing absurd or extravagant in the idea, that a being of almighty power, can create out of nothing. It is not dcrogatiug from the respect due to God, to say that lie cannot work contradictions ; that he cannot...

...common to say that God can do all things, except, such as imply a contradiction — such, as to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; but this is unnecessary and foolish in the way of an exception, for such things are not the objects of...