 | John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1700 - 446 pages
...thefe from the extent of the Divine Power ; feut we may fafely fay, that the Divine Power can make a thing to be and not to be at the fame time. To 'this I anfwer, i. I do not grant, that anything . that feems to me to be a contradiction, ought... | |
 | Humphry Ditton - 1714 - 540 pages
...railing a Perfon from the Dead, or of re-animating a dead Body, does not amount to that, of making a thing to be, and not to be, at the fame time , nor does it imply or infer, any thing that can ever bereduc'd thereto. So that thefe Perfons have... | |
 | Humphry Ditton - 1727 - 460 pages
...of raifing a perfon from the Dead, or of re-animating a dead Body, does not amount to that of making a thing to be and not to be at the fame time ; nor does it imply or infer any thing that can ever be reduced thereto. So that thefe Perfons have... | |
 | Matthew Hole - 1732 - 382 pages
...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 things implying... | |
 | Miscellaneous correspondence - 1742 - 422 pages
...a truth the moft fimple, clear and intelligible, bccaufe we readily conceive that it is impoffiblc for a thing to be and not to be at the fame time. Thefe forts of truths are xcafily difcover'd, but there are others more difficult to be underftood,... | |
 | William Duncan - 1748 - 380 pages
...are perfeff ^ or to fay that All Men are mortal, and yet that Some Men are not mortal, is to aflert a Thing to be and not to be at the fame time. . -, IV. AND now I think. we are fufHUerrenffralitn i « • . ^ rr- i ^ • 11 an infallible ctently... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1750 - 336 pages
...Contradictions. For Subftance muft be, or not be, it muft be a Being, or Nothing ; unlefs Confcioufnefs can make a Thing to. be, and not to be at the fame Time. Confequently , two diftincl Subftances, in Defiance of Self Confcioufnefs, and all it's wonder-working... | |
 | Thomas Chubb - 1754 - 432 pages
...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 the man Chrift... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 488 pages
...exempt thefe from the extent of the divine power ; but we may fafely fay, that the divine power can make a thing to be, and not to be at the fame time. To this I anfwer, i. I do not grant, that any thing, which feems to me to be a contradiction, ought... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 586 pages
...are perfefi ; or to fay that All Men are mortal^ and yet that Some Men are not mortal^ is to a/Tert a thing to be and not to be at the fame time. IV. AXD now I think we are fufficiently authorized to affirm, that all Sylloe,ifms of the Daivfrattm... | |
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Leibnitz propofes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge ; the firft, that it is impoffible for a thing to be and not to be at the fame time... 
