...and the supreme right which the Creator has to dispose of his creatures as it seems good to him. " Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus ?" He acknowledges an incomprehensibility in the thing which...

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...have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.— Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath...

...hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault ? for who hath resisted his will ? 20 Nay but, O man, w:ho art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed zV, Why hast thou made me thus ? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same...

...last, for many be called but few chosen." Matt. xx. 15, 16. the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured, with much long suffering, the vessels of wrath,...

...doth he yet find fault ; for who hath resisted his will ? Nay, but oh man, who art thou that repliesth against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that...lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another to dishonour? — Hath God cast away his people whom he foreknew ? Wot ye not what the scripture saith...

...potter and of his clay, upon this very occasion. «• " Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus ? Hath not the potter...one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" This simile, they say, relates obviously to the uses of these vessels. The potter makes some for splendid...

...jristice in their everlasting punishment, Rom. xi. 21,22. Hath not the potter power ov«r the clay, of the same lump 'to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffeting the vessels of wrath fitted...

...art the potter, and we are all the " work of thine hand" Isaiah Ixiv. 8. To which the apostle adds, " Nay but, O man, who art thou "that repliest against God'? Shall the. thing "formed, say unto him that formed it, Why hast " thou made me thus'? Hath not the potter, " power over the clay,...

...the Potter and of his clay, upon this very occasion : " Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one unto honour and another to dishonour^ ?" This simile, they say,...