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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 18:6

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Ver. 6. O house of Israel, cannot I do with you.] Make you or mar you at my pleasure: have I not an absolute sovereignty over you, that ye lift up the heel against me, and awake my power by your provocations?

As the clay is in the potter's hand.] What, then, hath vain man to vaunt of? or why should any proud Arminian a say, Quod potui, miserentis est Dei; quod volui, id meae est potestatis? That I can do good, is of God's mercy; that I will do it, is merely in mine own power? This man was sure his own potter, and not willing to owe overmuch of himself to God.

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