is not to be understood, notwithstanding the emphatic assertions of Scripture, that all things are possible with Him, as a power to do contradictions. It has also been usually said by Theologians that God’s will is limited, not only by the necessary contradiction, but by His own perfections. The meaning is correct; the phrase is incorrect. God’s will is not limited; for those perfections as much ensure that He will never wish, as that He will never do, those incompatible things. He does absolutely
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