...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...

...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...one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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?" This simile, they say, relates obviously to the uses of these vessels. The potter makes some for splendid...

...argue with the potter, and say, Why hast thou made me so homety a vessel, and why to so mean uses? IX. 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the...one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? Hath not the potter full power over the clay, to make it up into •what form, or to what use he pleases?...

...much honour.] Perhaps our author horrowed this expression from Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans, ix, 21 : "|Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour" &c. Steevens. 2 fair spoken, and persuading :] Eloquence constituted apart of the Cardinal's real character...