...have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Ver .21. Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? Ver. 22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suftering...

...may be, has occasioned this reproach to be cast upon it. For when the apostle says, in Rom. ix. 22. What if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath Jilted to destruction, some suppose that we understand this text,...

...stronghold of predestination is the following : — " Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour"" (Rom. ix. 21.) From this it is inferred that mankind are in the hands of the Creator, as a dead lump...

...him that formed it, \\ hv hast thou made me thus ? 21 Hath not the potter power over the elay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured ivith mueh long-suffering...

...are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. Rom. ix. 21. Hath not the Potter poicer over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? 2 Cor. iv. 7. We have this treasure in enrthtn vessels. Matt, xxvii. ?• -And they took cnnnsel,...

...lump to make one vessel to honour, and another (marred or gone wrong, Jer. xviii.) to dishonour? 22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the yessels of wrath fitted to destruction; 23. And to make known the riches of his...

...the presence */* God, and the glory of his power. " Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ?" ver. 21 . Unquestionably. — But who ever heard of a Potter, that made a vessel expressly to dash...

...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 vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?" (J>~) They will deny this to be in reality any vindication of God's justice, and call it a subterfuge,...

...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 vessel unto honour, and another...wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction : And that he might make known the (a) Col....

...and may therefore let this pass, without further notice. P. ccxxvii. 1. 25. God, " willing to show his wrath, " and to make his power known, endured...much " long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruc" tion." This text thus introduced, without exposition or remark, is, with the context,...