Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

nor act, but as he wills or permits: and hence it is evident he can at any
time counteract, or suspend, or destroy all exertions of all finite beings.
Therefore, be the power of sin and Satan what it may, this can be no
objection against the destruction of sin in the heart of man. He is ABLE to
do THIS.
It is the prerogative of God alone to save the human soul. Nothing less
than unlimited power, exerted under the direction and impulse of
unbounded mercy, can save a sinner.
The resurrection of the dead is a stupendous work of God; it requires
his might in sovereign action: and when we consider that all mankind are
to be raised and changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, then the
momentum, or velocity, with which the power is to be applied, must be
inconceivably great. All motion is in proportion to the quantity of matter
in the mover, and the velocity with which it is applied. The effect here is
in proportion to the cause and the energy he puts forth in order to produce
it. But such is the nature of God's power in action, that it is perfectly
inconceivable to us.
Every thing is equally easy to that Power which is unlimited. A
universe can be as easily produced by a single act of the divine Will as
the smallest elementary part of matter.
I have no doubt that the power or strength of the divine nature was the
attribute principally contemplated by our rude ancestors, and indeed by
all the primitive inhabitants of the earth, Hence colossal statues, immense
rocks, and massive temples were dedicated to this power or strength,
which at last the licentious imagination of man personified and adored,
in a monstrous human form, under the name of Hercules, among the
Greeks and Romans; Baal, among the Canaanites; Bramah, among the
ancient Hindoos, &c.; and Tuisco, &c., among our Teutonic and Celtic
ancestors; and hence every strong man was supposed to be the principal
favourite of the Deity, and to be under the peculiar direction of this