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 ! Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour... Lectures on Theology - Page 371by John Dick - 1838Full view - About this book
| Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 442 pages
...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... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessi-l to honour, and another to dishonour ? What if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known endures with much long suffering the. vessels of wrath prepared to destruction ? Rom. ix. 11, &c. In... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 522 pages
...glory of his own justice. This is so plain and obvious, that he wlro runs may read it. Rom. ix. 22, " What, if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endureth, with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." Against this doctrine... | |
| Johann Caspar Lavater - Facial expression - 1804 - 422 pages
...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...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 riches... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...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... | |
| Hannah Adams - Religions - 1805 - 514 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1806 - 406 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 1806 - 308 pages
...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...wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffeting the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction. Q. 9. Whence is it that God doth decree... | |
| Samuel Barnard - Apologetics - 1806 - 336 pages
...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,... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1806 - 480 pages
...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,... | |
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