...language VOL. I. L of an inspired Apostle on this head ; " Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that...made me thus ? Hath not the potter power over the clay*?" When Abraham was pleading with God in behalf of guilty Sodom, what did he say ? " Shall not...

...ourselves, but seems to refer every thing to God, saying, ' Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another to dishonour (y)?' These expressions are not conj tradictory : (v) Rom. cav 4 — 10. (x) 2 Tin* c. 2. v. 2i . (j)...

...divine sovereignty in the clearest terms. Rom. ix. 21. Hath not the potter power over the day of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another to dishonour? See from verse eleventh to the end of the chapter, and also Rom. viii. 30 ; xi. 5, 7. Eph. i. 4. Acts...

...he yet find fault ? for who hath resisted his will ? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another to dishonour ? &Ci Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. Esaias also crieth...

...doth he yet find fault ? For who hath resisted his will? Nay, but, O, man! who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed, say to him that...made me thus ? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel to honour and another to dishonour ? What then, Israel hath...

...but, O man, who art thou that repiiest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power...same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" This answer is, unquestionably, " pungent and powerful." But it is much mo're pertinent,...

...against God, who is light, thou who art from the light ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus ? Hath not the potter...of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, another a vessel to dishonour ? [mark,] but what, if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his...

...state, and showed him his own weakness and nothingness. " Nay, but, O man ! who art thou that replies! against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that...same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another anto dishonour ?" I then admonished him to awake from the fatal lethargy, in which he securely slumbered...

...second assertion, those words in verse 20, 21, 22. " Shall the thing formed, say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ? Hath not the potter...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...

...will have mercy." Here is no ground of disputing with him; for "who art thou, O man, that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that...made me thus ? Hath. not the potter power over the clay ?" And as to his providences, wherein his sovereignty is also manifested; it is said in Zech....