...working out their own salvation ; yet he withholds his preventing grace from all hut the elect, for "he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth* ;" and as without his preventing grace the reprobate cannot obtain his assisting grace, since these...

...approaching death, who was very sensible of his sins, and implored the mercy of God. So true is it, that God hath " mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth" by leaving them to follow their own delusions. The following Sabbath he preached in the morning at...

...which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness :" " He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth :" " There is a remnant ascording to the election of grace : " " That he might make known the riches...

...concerning the Supreme King it is said, in relation to the transformation of the human character, " He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." God is represented as willing (ie choosing) to make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of...

...Scripture «aith to Pharaoh, for this purpose have I raised thee up that I might make my power known. He Ղ ႀ , ˀ Who art thou who repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou...

...no thought can be withholden from thee, Job, xlii. 2. And no man can resist the will of God, for he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy; and whom he will he hardeneth. And, if after all, O vain man! thou wilt still object, and say " why doth he yet find fault ? for who...

...It is here that he displays the " See Appendix. Note 0. sovereignty of his grace, showing that "he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." Rom. 9 : 18. At the same time, he exhibits the manner in which existing differences in human character...

...have I hated ;" that is, The spiritual mind have I loved, but the carnal mind have I hated — " He hath mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth ;" that is, He hath mercy on the spirit, and He hardeneth the flesh, according as it is written, "...

...allotment into the will of God, who gives and withholds his favour according to his pleasure : — " He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. "§ In this decree of God, the two following things are to be distinctly considered. The first is the...

...other human being has ever lived, who has not failed to perform his duties. It cannot be true that he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth: for he would have mercy on all, if he could; and so far from hardening whom he will, it is not his...