...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...

...chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans: " Hath hot the potter power over the clay of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour; and another unto dishonour?" COLLINS. 265. A door opens, &c.j The stage direction in the old copy is a singular one. Exit Lord Chamberlain,...

...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...

...We reply, that God is master of his creature, and that the potter hath po'jcer over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour. If you still demand, what then is the use of our ministry, and what right hath God to complain that...

...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,...

...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...

...This if it be harsh, yet is Apostolic doctrine. Hath not the potter (saith St. Paul) power over the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour ? This deep we must admire, and always in considering it, close with this, O the depth of the riches,...

...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...

...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,...