| Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 442 pagina’s
...He apprehends all the force of the objection ; he proposes it without weakening it in the least. " God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." This is St Paul's doctrine, and behold the difficulty which he starts upon it. " Thou wilt say then... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1764 - 560 pagina’s
...that fheweth Mercy. Ver. 13. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, and Efau have I hated. Ver. 18. He hath Mercy, on whom he will have Mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. xi. 2. God hath not caft away his People, which he foreknew. Ver. 21. Hath not the Potter Power over... | |
| John Smalley - 1769 - 84 pagina’s
...not of him " that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God " that fhewith mercy." and " that he hath mercy, on whom he will have mercy ; and whom he will he hardeneth." And in our text, our Saviour accounts for the murmuring and oppofition, of the unbeleiving jews, by... | |
| Jeremiah White - 1779 - 302 pagina’s
...3. Confider whofe Work it is, this difference of veffels and Work ; it is the Lord's; he owns it; be hath Mercy on whom he will have Mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. The hardening proceedeth from the fame Will as the Mercy. Now the Will or Pleafure of God is the Source... | |
| Robert MacCulloch - 1794 - 738 pagina’s
...to which indeed all men lay claim, he diftributes his favours according to hts good pleafure. * He hath mercy on whom he will * have mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth *. ' What fhall we fay then, Is there unrighteoufnefs * with God ? God forbid f.' 1 confider it not... | |
| Augustus Toplady - 1794 - 526 pagina’s
...is lawful for God to do what he will with his own ; and the latter, with one voice, declare, that he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 3. Another very innocent definition (though wretchedly mutilated, according to cuftom, in Mr. "Wefley's... | |
| John Willison - 1798 - 644 pagina’s
...fovereigu will. 2. Suppofing the worft, you ought to fubmit to the incontroulable fovereignty of God, who hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. He is of one mind, an<l who can turn him ? The Lrrd cut off Aaron's two fons in the very aft of You... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1797 - 582 pagina’s
...in goodneft, ready to forgive. His very nature is goodnefs, his property is to have mercy. Indeed he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and, whom he will, he hardeneth. But mercy he draws from his own nature; condemnation is a work to which we in a meafure compel him.... | |
| David Culy - 1800 - 270 pagina’s
...whom " I will have mercy, and I will have compassioa on whom I will have compassion ; therefore he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. And no wonder that the will of God should be the main spring that sets all inferior wheels in motion,... | |
| Samuel Davies - 1802 - 456 pagina’s
...their eyes, and hardened their hearts, John xii. 39, 40. and in the fame ftrain St. Paul fpeaks: he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he •will he hardeneth. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that Jheweth mercy. Rom.... | |
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