The Justice of God's Sovereign Choice

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What shall wee say then? Is there vnrighteousnes with God? God forbid.

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For he saith to Moses, I wil haue mercy on him, to whom I wil shew mercie: and wil haue compassion on him, on who I wil haue copassion.

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So then it is not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but in God that sheweth mercy.

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For the Scripture saith vnto Pharao, For this same purpose haue I stirred thee vp, that I might shewe my power in thee, and that my Name might be declared throughout al the earth.

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Therefore he hath mercie on whome he will, and whom he will, he hardeneth.

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Thou wilt say then vnto me, Why doeth he yet complaine? for who hath resisted his will?

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But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

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Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lumpe one vessell to honour, and another vnto dishonour?

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What and if God would, to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowen, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath, prepared to destruction?

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And that hee might declare the riches of his glory vpon the vessels of mercy, which hee hath prepared vnto glory?

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Euen vs whome hee hath called, not of of the Iewes onely, but also of the Gentiles,

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