...sovereignty he declares, " I will have mercy, " on whom I will have mercy, and I will have com" passion on whom I will have compassion. So then " it is not of him that wiljeth, nor of him that run" neth, but of God that sheweth mercy." — " There " fore he hath mercy...

...to him in a way of mercy. How strikingly does this prove his own declaration to Moses, ' I will have mercy on. whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion OH whom I will have compassion. So then,' adds the Apostle, and his words deserve especial attention,...

...we say then ? Is there unrighteousness with God ? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion pn whom I will have compassion. 16 So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,...

...can discover nothing hostile to our tenets in these quotations. 1 ' God says to Moses, " I will have mercy on whom I will " have mercy, and I will have...compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him " that runneth, but of God that shewelh mercy." Perhaps you ' may say, we ought then neither...

...22/2T.' » ROBB. viii. 28, 39, 30, 33, works, but of him that calleth. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy ; and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. Therefore, he hatn mercy on whom he will have mercy, and \\ IvIin he will he hardeneth. "* The doctrine...

...blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Rom. ix. 15, 18. "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion 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...

...some, and those are the objects that himself chose, according to his own good pleasure : " I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy ; and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." This he proclaimed from heaven himself; and though there are many that have and still do resist his...

...13.) Mai. 1, 2, 3. Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated ; (v. 15.) lixod. 33. 19. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compasaion, (v. 17.) Exod, 9. 16 Even for this same purpose have I raised thee, (Pharaoh,) up, that...

...will get a plaster for the reprobate. He is coming now with a searcloth for Pharaoh king of Egypt. ' The scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for ' this same purpose have I raised thee up ; it is not ' said that God raised him up for damnation.' To which I answer, If he did not raise him...

...we say ? Is God unjust, according to what he says to Moses, ' I will have mercy on whom I will bare mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion (1) ? ' If, say* he, we admit this, that God does whatever he -wills, and either elects or condemns...