...tyrant Pharaoh, and the •whole nation of the Jews, in the times of Moses and of Jeremiah ? — " and that He might make known the riches of His glory...of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but alto of the Gentile?" Would this, indeed, contradict...

...them who shall dareto pronounce his conduct unrighteous ? ' And,' what if the same sovereign Being, ' that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared untd glory, determined to manifest infinite love in their complete deliverance from deserved destruction,...

...another unto dishonour ? What if GOD, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted...of mercy, which he had afore prepared- unto glory.- He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I will be his GOD, and he shall be my son. But the...

...he was in readiness to receive into the glorions state of being bis people, under the Gospel ?" 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory...of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, PARAPHRASE. suffering r, bear with the sinful nation of the Jews, even when they were proper objects...

...Gentiles ; for so he declares over and over again, chap, xi.ver. 11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 28, 30. • " Make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy." St. Paul in a parallel place, Col. i. has so fully explained these words, that he that will read ver....

...Spirit, and so " to work in them to will and " to do, of his good pleasure." But the words, " and to make known the riches of his glory on " the vessels of mercy, whom he had afore pre" pared unto glory," denote more than merely their effectual calling : they signify...

...and natural evil. But, as matters are, " What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and make his power known, endureth, with much long-suffering, the vessels...mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory ?" If a wise king, having granted an act of pardon to all his rebellious subjects, on condition of true penitence...

...towards the penitent. And " what if God, willing to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted...of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory?" He is neither excited by revenge, nor moved by fear, in punishing the incorrigible transgressors of...

...give the sense of the original) 'God, willing to' shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted...of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles' (the other verses from...

...if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering15 the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that...vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory16." Permitting him to continue, when he had deserved to be cut off, was an act of longsuffering...