Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. ISBN 0-8146-2971-7 Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. In the Protestant system, however, remission of sin is no real forgiveness, no blotting out of guilt. For, God by His merely judicial absolution from sin does not take away sin itself, but spreads over it as an outer mantle His own righteousness. In the article on GRACE these are described as formal effects of sanctifying grace. Thus each and every factor receives its full share and is assigned its proper place. It is well known that Luther in his German translation of the Bible falsified Romans 3:28, by interpolating the word "alone" (by faith alone), and to his critics gave the famous answer: "Dr. Martin Luther wants it that way, and says, 'Papist and ass are the same thing: sic volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas'.". Mohler, “Symbolik”, §25.). Without assurance of right standing before God, a person could never rest in Godâs mercy and unmerited love. The most important of these differences is to be found in Calvin’s system, which taught that only such as are predestined infallibly to eternal salvation obtain justification, whilst in those not predestined God produces a mere appearance of faith and righteousness, and this in order to punish them the more severely in hell (Cf. This entire process receives its first impulse from the supernatural grace of vocation (absolutely independent of man’s merits), and requires an intrinsic union of the Divine and human action, of grace and moral freedom of election, in such a manner, however, that the will can resist, and with full liberty reject the influence of grace (Trent, 1. c., can. Clearing up misunderstandings regarding the Catholic doctrine of justification. ISBN 0-8028-4774-9; Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti. Pohle, “Dogmatik”, II, 4th ed., Paderborn, 1909, p. 512). On the other hand, it cannot be denied that in the Middle Ages there were a few Catholic theologians among the Nominalists (Occam, Durandus, Gabriel Biel), who went so far in exaggerating the value of good works in the matter of justification that the efficiency and dignity of Divine grace was unduly relegated to the background. 169; "Katholik", 1883, I, 142 sqq. googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1402172227320-0');}); (Cf. Declar., § 48: “It is settled beyond question that our justice is to be sought wholly outside of ourselves and that it consists entirely in our Lord Jesus Christ.” The contrast between Protestant and Catholic doctrine here becomes very striking. 8. Justification (Lat. (3rd ed., 1905); Feine, Das Gesetzesfreie Evangelium des Paulus (1899); Idem, Jesus Christus u. Paulus (1902); Clemen, Paulus, sein Leben u. Wirken (2 vols., 1904); Gottschick, Die Heilsgewissheit des evangelishen Christen in Zeitschr. According to Rosmini, there are two categories of sin: (I) such as God merely covers and does not impute (cf. is “Liberum arbitrium minime extinctum, viribus licet attenuatum et inclinatum”). According to the now universally rejected opinion of the Nominalists (Occam, Gabriel Biel) and the Scotists (Mastrius, Henno) the contrast between grace and sin is based on a free decree and acceptation of God, or in other words, the contrast is merely moral. The strict orthodoxy of the Oh Lutherans, e.g. by Fr. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. . The 500-year commemoration of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses is seizing public attention, and, more than any other subject, justification is in the limelight.Whereas recent years have tended to focus on diverse interpretations in biblical studies (e.g. In the article on GRACE these are described as formal effects of sanctifying grace. 8. However, a version of co-operant grace also weaves through Wesley’s doctrine of justification. Contact information. Diametrically opposed to these qualities are those defended by the Council of Trent (sess. By this doctrine Luther opened a fundamental breach between religion and morality, between faith and law, and assigned to each its own distinct sphere of action in which each can attain its end independent of the other. The Lutheran (and Calvinistic) doctrine on justification reaches its climax in the assertion that "fiduciary faith", as described above, is the only requisite for justification (sola fides justificat). Solid. Central to Augustine’s doctrine of justification is his understanding of the ‘righteousness of God’, iustitia Dei. . Pohle, "Dogmatik", II, 4th ed., Paderborn, 1909, p. 512). Whether Victorinus, a neo-Platonist, already defended the doctrine of justification by faith alone, is immaterial to our discussion. clxix, c. xi, n.13). Cf. But if the grace of Redemption merited by Christ is to be appropriated by the individual, he must be "regenerated by God", that is he must be justified. III de fide justif., § xi: “The term justification in this instance means the declaring just, the freeing from sin and the eternal punishment of sin in consideration of the justice of Christ imputed to faith by God.”, What then is the part assigned to faith in justification? The Roman Catholic view on justification. In response to the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church called its 19th ecumenical council in the city of Trento in modern day Italy. The same decree also effectually set aside the opinion of Peter Lombard, that the formal cause of justification (i.e. The Council of Trent (I. c., cap. For the contrast between grace and sin is as great as between light and darkness (II Cor., vi, 14; Eph., v, 8), between life and death (Rom., v, 21; Col., ii, 13; I John, iii, 14), between God and idols, Christ and Belial (II Cor., vi, 15 sqq. Of late, however, Catholic exegetes have become more and more convinced that the Epistle in question, so remarkable for its insisting on the necessity of good works, neither aimed at correcting the false interpretations of St. Paul's doctrine, nor had any relation to the teaching of the Apostle of the Gentiles. Strigel) boldly attacked the Lutheran Klotz-Stock-und-Steintheorie (log-stick-and-stone theory), and tried to force from their adversaries the concession that man can cooperate with God's grace. On October 31, 1999 Bishop Kasper the Secretary of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Rev. (Cf. The Roman Catholic doctrine of justification is analytic. Augustinus”, II, Freiburg, 1909, pp. ; II, 465 sqq., 610 sqq.) This opinion might be safely accepted were sanctifying grace only a physical ornament of the soul. On 31 October 1999, the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification was signed in Augsburg, Germany, by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation. 25.). The Counter Reformation, or Catholic Reformation, began at the Council of Trent in . VI, can. Comparing Bible and Tradition they could not experience any serious difficulty in showing that fiduciary faith was an absolutely new invention and that the faith of justification was identical with a firm belief in the truths and promises of Divine revelation (l. c.: "illumque [Deum] tanquam omnis justitiae fontem diligere incipiunt"). VI, cap. ; 1883, 491 sqq., 593 sqq. Over the coming months, the doctrine of justification will be subject to a great deal of scrutiny. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Terry Wilkinson. Solid. Justification. fur protest. The most important of these differences is to be found in Calvin's system, which taught that only such as are predestined infallibly to eternal salvation obtain justification, whilst in those not predestined God produces a mere appearance of faith and righteousness, and this in order to punish them the more severely in hell (Cf. Although it is a Catholic dogma that sanctifying grace and sin (original and mortal) do never exist simultaneously in the soul, there may be, nevertheless a diversity of opinion regarding the extent of this incompatibility, according as it is considered as either moral, physical, or metaphysical in character. iv, xiv). Therefore Catholic official position on Justification is our justification comes from grace of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church # 1996) and Justification is acceptance of Godâs righteousness through faith in ⦠In the Protestant system, however, remission of sin is no real forgiveness, no blotting out of guilt. Declar. ", nn.793-810) and thirty-three canons (l.c., 811-43) gives in the clearest manner all necessary information about the process, causes, effects, and qualities of justification. ; II, 561 sqq. The Lutheran (and Calvinistic) doctrine on justification reaches its climax in the assertion that "fiduciary faith", as described above, is the only requisite for justification (sola fides justificat). Conc. The council rejected the doctrine of justification by faith alone and excommunicated those . But there is an impassable gap between the Catholic and the Lutheran position after that point. Bartmann, “St. III, § 15: “Through the obedience of Christ by faith the just are so declared and reputed, although by reason of their corrupt nature they still are and remain sinners as long as they bear this mortal body.” This so-called “fiduciary faith” is not a religious-moral preparation of the soul for sanctifying grace, nor a free act of cooperation on the part of the sinner; it is merely a means or spiritual instrument (instrumentum, Greek: organonleptikon) granted by God to assist the sinner in laying hold of the righteousness of God, thereby to cover his sins in a purely external manner as with a mantle. For, just as light dispels darkness, so the infusion of sanctifying grace eo ipso dispels from the soul original and mortal sin. Kirche uber die Rechtfertigung (Munich, 1837); Wieser, S. Pauli doctrina de justificatione (Trent, 1874); Mohler, Symbolik (2nd ed., Mainz, 1890), secs. Declar. It is a precious doctrine that is constantly attacked and misrepresented. Galatians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 13; James 2:17 sqq. u. Kritik (1903), 349 sqq. Sin is merely cloaked and concealed by the imputed merits of Christ; God no longer imputes it, whilst in reality it continues under cover its miserable existence till the hour of death. let him be anathema"). III, sec. According to the Catholic doctrine, however, this freedom from sin and this sanctity are effected, not by two distinct and successive Divine acts, but by a single act of God. Nevertheless it was not a healthy reaction against Nominalism, but Luther's own state of conscience that caused his change of views. This would logically imply in contradiction to the "unica causa formalis" of the Council of Trent, a twofold formal cause of justification (cf. The process of justification (processus justificationis) iv, xiv). ; 1883, 491 sqq., 593 sqq. This entire process receives its first impulse from the supernatural grace of vocation (absolutely independent of man's merits), and requires an intrinsic union of the Divine and human action, of grace and moral freedom of election, in such a manner, however, that the will can resist, and with full liberty reject the influence of grace (Trent, l.c., can.iv: "If any one should say that free will, moved and set in action by God, cannot cooperate by assenting to God's call, nor dissent if it wish. The effects of justification ), etc. . What is justification? Catholics believe that mankind has inherited original … But, not to close the gates of heaven against pagans and those non-Catholics, who without their fault do not know or do not recognize the Sacraments of Baptism and Penance, Catholic theologians unanimously hold that the desire to receive these sacraments is implicitly contained in the serious resolve to do all that God has commanded, even if His holy will should not become known in every detail. The finished work of Jesus Christ enables us to become better people, and God declares us saved based on the fact that we have become better. But since in reality it is an ethical form of sanctification by which even an infant in receiving baptism is necessarily made just and pleasing to God, there must be between the concepts of grace and of sin a metaphysical and absolute contradiction, which not even Divine omnipotence can alter and destroy. Quite distinct from this is the question whether the personal indwelling of the Holy Ghost, although not required for justification (inasmuch as sanctifying grace alone suffices), be necessary as a prerequisite for Divine adoption. Konz. xi: "Si quis dixerit, homines justificari vel sola imputatione justitiae Christi, vel sola peccatorum remissione, exclusa gratia et caritate, quae in cordibus eorum per Spiritum Sanctum diffundatur atque illis inhaereat. New York: Robert Appleton Company. For if it be essential to fiduciary faith that it infallibly assures the sinner of his own justification, it cannot mean anything but a firm conviction of the actual possession of grace. Since the sixteenth century great differences have existed between Protestants and Catholics regarding the true nature of justification. Butzer (d. 1551) likewise admits, in addition to an "imputed exterior righteousness", the idea of an "inherent righteousness" as a partial factor in justification, thus meeting Catholicism half way. The solution of the lively controversy on this point between Fr. clxix, c. xi, n.13). Cf. The Council of Trent decreed that the essence of active justification comprises not only forgiveness of sin, but also "sanctification and renovation of the interior man by means of the voluntary acceptation of sanctifying grace and other supernatural gifts" (Trent, l. c., cap. Finally the Lutheran Church of Scandinavia has in the course of time experienced a “quiet reformation”, inasmuch as it now, without being fully conscious of the fact, defends the Catholic doctrine on justification (cf. Does not original sin become identical with the “Evil Substance” of the Manichaeans, as later on Luther’s follower, Flacius Illyricus, quite logically admitted? This genuinely Biblical concept of justification forms such an essential element of Catholicism, that even Antonio Rosmini’s theory, standing half way between Protestantism and Catholicism, is quite irreconcilable with it. Accordingly, … Luther's most dangerous adversary, however, was his friend Melancthon, who, in his praiseworthy endeavour to smooth over by conciliatory modifications the interior difficulties of this discordant system, laid the foundation for the famous Synergisten-Streit (Synergist Dispute), which was so soon to become embittered. Solid. Nevertheless, as the children of Adam were really corrupted by original sin, they could not of themselves arise from their fall nor shake off the bonds of sin, death, and Satan. Frightened, tormented, worn out by constant reflexions on his own sinfulness, he had finally found, even before 1517, relief and consolation only in the thought that man cannot overcome concupiscence and that sin itself is a necessity. The next step is a genuine sorrow for all sin with the resolution to begin a new life by receiving holy baptism and by observing the commandments of God. Until quite recently, it was almost universally accepted that the Epistle of St. James was written against the unwarranted conclusions drawn from the writings of St. Paul. This book shows that the Catholic understanding of Salvation, particularly in the area of Justification, is the only correct way to understand Scripture's teaching on this subject. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08573a.htm. As the dogmatic side of the controversy has been fully explained in the article on GRACE, we shall here consider it more from an historical point of view. We assert this of Protestantism in general; for the doctrine of justification as defended by the reformed Churches differs only in non-essentials from Lutheranism. Justification. ), dead faith devoid of charity (fides informis) cannot possess any justifying power. 1872), 254-343. For the contrast between grace and sin is as great as between light and darkness (2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:8), between life and death (Romans 5:21; Colossians 2:13; 1 John 3:14), between God and idols, Christ and Belial (2 Corinthians 6:15 sqq. With what little right heretics in defence of their doctrine appeal to St. Augustine, may be seen from the following brief extract from his writings: "He who made you without your doing does not without your action justify you. moribusque divin. Theologie”, Munich, 1867, p. 583). x-xxvii; Einig in Kirchenlex., s.v. Comparing Bible and Tradition they could not experience any serious difficulty in showing that fiduciary faith was an absolutely new invention and that the faith of justification was identical with a firm belief in the truths and promises of Divine revelation (I. c., cap. Francisco Suárez (De gratia, VII, 20) and some of his followers in defending a physical contrast come nearer the truth. This so-called "fiduciary faith" is not a religious-moral preparation of the soul for sanctifying grace, nor a free act of cooperation on the part of the sinner; it is merely a means or spiritual instrument (instrumentum, organon leptikon) granted by God to assist the sinner in laying hold of the righteousness of God, thereby to cover his sins in a purely external manner as with a mantle. Of late, Fathers Denifle and Weiss have shown that Martin Luther was acquainted almost exclusively with the theology of these Nominalists, which he naturally and justly found repugnant, and that the “Summa” of St. Thomas and the works of other great theologians were practically unknown to him. October 1, 1910. Ecclesiastical approbation. Cf. This opinion might be safely accepted were sanctifying grace only a physical ornament of the soul. By this decree the Council not only condemned the Protestant view that the will in the reception of grace remains merely passive, but also forestalled the Jansenistic heresy regarding the impossibility of resisting actual grace. sanctifying grace) is nothing less than the Person of the Holy Ghost, Who is the hypostatic holiness and charity, or the uncreated grace (gratia increata). The same decree also effectually set aside the opinion of Peter Lombard, that the formal cause of justification (i.e. Could anyone do more to degrade St. Paul's concept of justification than Luther did in the following blasphemy: "If adultery could be committed in faith, it would not be a sin"? For, by stating that fiduciary faith alone suffices for obtaining both justification and eternal happiness, he minimized our moral faculties to such an extent that charity and good works no longer affect our relations with God. For they declared contrition and penance as also necessary for justification, thus “coming dangerously near the Catholic system”, as Dorner expresses it (“Geschichte der protest. Kleutgen, "Theologie der Vorzeit", II (2nd ed., Munster, 1872), 254-343. The Protestants believed that the Catholic doctrine of justification led to human despondency. 9-11): uncertainty (incertitudo), inequality (inoequalitas), amissibility (amissibilitas). (Cf. Faith, which alone can justify, is also the only requisite and means of obtaining salvation. Rechtfertigung. It says that we must cooperate with the grace of Christ and do good work to be saved. xii: “Si quis dixerit, fidem justificantem nihil aliud esse quam fiduciam divinae misericordisae, peccata remittentis propter Christum, vel earn fiduciam solam esse, qua justificamur, a. s.”). . Since the sixteenth century great differences have existed between Protestants and Catholics regarding the true nature of justification. For they declared contrition and penance as also necessary for justification, thus "coming dangerously near the Catholic system", as Derner expresses it ("Geschichte der protest. For according to the teaching of the Catholic Church the righteousness and sanctity which justification confers, although given to us by God as efficient cause (causa efficiens) and merited by Christ as meritorious cause (causa meritoria), become an interior sanctifying quality or formal cause (causa formalis) in the soul itself, which it makes truly just and holy in the sight of God. Möhler, "Symbolik", sec. omnia, VI (Paris, 1873); Nussbaum, Die Lehre der kathol. Considering merely the psychological analysis of the conversion of sinners, as given by the council, it is at once evident that faith alone, whether fiduciary or dogmatic, cannot justify man (Trent, 1. c., can. Many historical theologians interpret him as confusing justification with sanctification, of which justification is merely a part. But what probably contributed most of all to the crumbling of the system was the rapid growth of Socinianism and Rationalism which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gained so many adherents among the Lutherans. 169; "Katholik", 1883, I, 142 sqq. With what little right heretics in defense of their doctrine appeal to St. Augustine, may be seen from the following brief extract from his writings: “He who made you without your doing does not without your action justify you. Declar, sec. In their explanation grace and sin exclude each other with the same necessity as do fire and water, although in both cases God, by a miracle of his omnipotence, could suspend the general law and force the two hostile elements to exist peacefully side by side. clxix, c. xi, n. 13). Diametrically opposed to these qualities are those defended by the Council of Trent (sess. The Council of Trent assigns the first and most important place to faith, which is styled “the beginning, foundation and root of all justification” (Trent, 1. c., cap. Regarding St. Augustine's doctrine cf. translatio ab eo statu, in quo homo nascitur filius primi Adae, in statum gratiae et adoptionis filiorum Dei per secundum Adam, Jesum Christum, Salvatorem nostrum"). Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.CONTACT US | ADVERTISE WITH NEW ADVENT, Against this dark and desolate background there stands out the more clearly the mercy of God, who for the sake of the Redeemer's merits lovingly offers to despairing man a righteousness (justitia) already complete in itself, namely the exterior righteousness of God or of Christ. 25.) The contrast between Protestant and Catholic doctrine here becomes very striking. Möhler, "Symbolik", sec. This book shows that the Catholic understanding of Salvation, particularly in the area of Justification, is the only correct way to understand Scripture's teaching on this subject. xii: "Si quis dixerit, fidem justificantem nihil aliud esse quam fiduciam divinae misericordiae, peccata remittentis propter Christum, vel eam fiduciam solam esse, qua justificamur, a.s."). For if it be essential to fiduciary faith that it infallibly assures the sinner of his own justification, it cannot mean anything but a firm conviction of the actual possession of grace. As long as the sinner with the "arm of faith" firmly clings to Christ, he is and will ever remain regenerated, pleasing to God, the child of God and heir to heaven. For, just as light dispels darkness, so the infusion of sanctifying grace eo ipso dispels from the soul original and mortal sin. Thus each and every factor receives its full share and is assigned its proper place. Granderath ("Zeitschrift fur katholische Theologie", 1881, pp. To the parties involved, this essentially resolves the 500-year-old conflict over the nature of justificationwhich was at the root of … In order to exclude the Protestant idea of a merely forensic absolution and exterior declaration of righteousness, special stress is laid on the fact that we are justified by God‘s justice, not that whereby He himself is just but that whereby He makes us just, in so far as He bestows on us the gift of His grace which renovates the soul interiorly and adheres to it as the soul’s own holiness (Trent, 1. c., cap. in the Kingdom of Saxony and the State of Missouri, alone continues to cling tenaciously to a system, which otherwise would have slowly fallen into oblivion. 12). Rechtfertigung; Rademacher, Die ubernaturliche Lebensordnung nach der paulinischen u. johanneischen Theologie (Freiburg, 1903); Mausbach, Die Ethik des hl. As previously discussed, protestants view justification as the moment God declares that a guilty person is righteous because of what Christ has done. We now come to the different states in the process of justification. In the New Law this justification cannot, according to Christ’s precept, be effected except at the fountain of regeneration, that is, by the baptism of water. It is well known that Luther in his German translation of the Bible falsified Romans 3:28, by interpolating the word "alone" (by faith alone), and to his critics gave the famous answer: "Dr. Martin Luther wants it that way, and says, 'Papist and ass are the same thing: sic volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas'." Galatians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 13:2), whilst faith devoid of charity and good works (fides informis) is a dead faith and in the eyes of God insufficient for justification (cf. We now come to the different stages in the process of justification. The finished work of Jesus Christ enables us to become better people, and God declares us saved based on the fact that we have become better. Strigel) boldly attacked the Lutheran Klotz-Stock-und-Steintheorie (log-stick-and-stone theory), and tried to force from their adversaries the concession that man can cooperate with God's grace. 208-58. vii), moreover, did not neglect to enumerate in detail the other causes of justification: the glory of God and of Christ as the final cause (causa finalis), the mercy of God as the efficient cause (causa efficiens), the Passion of Christ as the meritorious cause (causa meritoria), the reception of the Sacraments as the instrumental cause (causa instrumentalis). Pohle, "Dogmatik", II, 4th ed., Paderborn, 1909, p. 512). From this point of view we get a psychological explanation of numerous objectionable passages in Luther's writings, against which even Protestant with deep moral sense, such as Hugo Grotius and George Bull, earnestly protested. APA citation. The process of justification is then brought to a close by the baptism of water, inasmuch as by the grace of this sacrament the catechumen is freed from sin (original and personal) and its punishments, and is made a child of God. The Lutheran (and Calvinistic) doctrine on justification reaches its climax in the assertion that “fiduciary faith”, as described above, is the only requisite for justification (sola fides justificat). The means of justification is an area of significant difference amongst the diverse theories of atonement defended within Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant theologies. There is only one thing that might possibly divest him of justification, namely, the loss of fiduciary faith or of faith in general. The Roman Catholic Doctrine of Justification. We have seen that Protestants claim the following three qualities for justification: certainty, equality, the impossibility of ever losing it. For according to the teaching of the Catholic Church the righteousness and sanctity which justification confers, although given to us by God as efficient cause (causa efficiens) and merited by Christ as meritorious cause (causa meritoria), become an interior sanctifying quality or formal cause (causa formalis) in the soul itself, which it makes truly just and holy in the sight of God. ), dead faith devoid of charity (fides informis) cannot possess any justifying power. It states that the churches now share "a common understanding of our justification by God's grace through faith in Christ." For, even if it is not the formal cause of justification (causa formalis), it is nevertheless its true exemplar (causa exemplaris), inasmuch as the soul receives a sanctity in imitation of God's own holiness. As long as the sinner with the “arm of faith” firmly clings to Christ, he is and will ever remain regenerated, pleasing to God, the child of God and heir to heaven. Since justification consists in an interior sanctity and renovation of spirit, its formal cause evidently must be a created grace (gratia creata), a permanent quality, a supernatural modification or accident (accidens) of the soul. Looking at the doctrine of justification as understood by the Protestant theologian Karl Barth in comparison to classic Roman Catholic theology, Kung found that the two had similar ideas about the main elements of justification. In their explanation grace and sin exclude each other with the same necessity as do fire and water, although in both cases God, by a miracle of his omnipotence, could suspend the general law and force the two hostile elements to exist peacefully side by side. Konz. viii). Kleutgen, “Theologie der Vorzeit”, II (2nd ed., Münster. 105, 117) admits that neither the Church in her official teaching nor the majority of her theologians ever sanctioned, much less adopted, the extreme views of the Nominalists. This thought naturally led him to a consideration of the fall of man and its consequences. The process of justification is then brought to a close by the baptism of water, inasmuch as by the grace of this sacrament the catechumen is freed from sin (original and personal) and its punishments, and is made a child of God. (3rd ed., 1905); Feine, Das Gesetzesfreie Evangelium des Paulus (1899); Idem, Jesus Christus u. Paulus (1902); Clemen, Paulus, sein Leben u. Wirken (2 vols., 1904); Gottschick, Die Heilsgewissheit des evangelishen Christen in Zeitschr. Thus each and every factor receives its full share and is assigned its proper place. In their explanation grace and sin exclude each other with the same necessity as do fire and water, although in both cases God, by a miracle of his omnipotence, could suspend the general law and force the two hostile elements to exist peacefully side by side. 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