...hold of thee: For thou hast hid thy face from us, And hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the...thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, Neither remember iniquity for ever: Behold, see, we beseech thee, we...

...him to bring him back, and make him look favourably on his forfaken People. Ver. 8. But now, O L»rd, thou art our father .' we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy ha.nd^\ They put him in mind, that they are his Children, if by that means they may move him to compaflion...

...hold of thee : for thou haft hid thy face from us, and haft confumed us becaufe of our iniquities, 8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father : we are the...thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 fl Be not wroth very fore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, feej we befeech thee,...

...ourfelves.—We are his children by creation} in which refpe<3: he is truly our father. Ifa. Ixiv. 8. But miiu, 0 Lord, thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the -wor'k of thine hands. And in a more fpecial fenfe we are his children by adoption. Gal. ili. 26. For ye are...

...creation, when we cannot do it by redemptipn ; fo doth the church under defcrtion, Ifa. Ixiv. 7, 8, 9. " O Lord, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our Potter, and we are all the work of thine hand. Be not wroth very fore," &c. If we can do uo more, let us thus plead...

...determined by the will " of the clay ?" Shall we not rather adopt the acknowledgment of the Church ? " Now, O LORD, " thou art our father : we are the clay,...our Potter, and we all are the work of thy " hand e." If we refufe this fubmiffion, we may be aifured that he fhall " dafh us in pieces as a " potter's...

...clay?" Shall we not rather adopt the acknowledgment of the Church ? " Now, O LORD, " thou art o«r father : we are the clay, and thou " our Potter, and we all are the work of thy "hands." If we refufe 'this fubmiffion, we may be affured that he fhall " dafh us in pieces as b "...

...provoked to hide his face from i litm, and to confume them, becaufe of their iniquities. " But now, О Lord, thou art our Father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we. are all the work of thy hand," Ifa. Ixiv. 8. Agreeable to this, the Lord himfelf dine : the houfe of...

...LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer ; thy name is from everlafting. If. Ixiv. 8. But now, O LORD, theu art our Father : We are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thine hand. Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit of GOD, they are the fons of GOD. Ver....

...contemned, eagerly defirous of earthly things, indifferent to the better and more enduring iiibftance. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay,...thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy hand. The continuance of the Divine difpleafure, whereof the pofterity of Ifrael hath long felt the direful...