...than the declaration of the text we have frequently had occasion to cite, Prov. xvi. " The Lord hath made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil." On one hand, the vessels of wrath are fitted for destruction, in order that God may shew his wrath...

...God are all his works from the beginning. JVhom he predestinated, them he also called ; the Lord hath made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil. The Lord is patient towards all men, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance....

...forms " them to some determinate end : For he does all things, " knowingly, and wisely. The Lord hath made all things " for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil. [Prov. « xvi. 4.] Divines, however, do not usually call this " predestination; but, reprobation It...

...forms " them to some determinate end : For he does all things, " knowingly, and wisely. The Lord bath made all things " for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil. [Prov. " xvi. 4.] Divines, however, do not usually call this « predestination; but, reprobation It...

...II. This pretended decree of reprobation is not proved (I.)from those words of Solomon, that " God made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of wrath." Prov. xvi. 4. ///. Nor (2.) from those words of St. John xii. 38. " Therefore they could not...

...and body ; that between God's own sovereign, universal agency in the government of the world, {making all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil ; Prov. xvi. 4,) and the free agency and accountability of man ; what would the wisdom of man have...

...he forms them to some determinate end : for he does all things, knowingly, and wisely. The Lord hath made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil [Prov. xvi. 4]. Divines, however, do not usually call this predestination ; but reprobation. — It...

...every where ascribed to the purpose, will, and good pleasure of God. Prov. xvi. 4. ' The Lord hath made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of wrath.' Matt. xi. 25, 26. ' Father, I thank thee that thou hast hid these things from the wise and...

...Certain it is, that he might have continued it with a blessed security to his own glory ; and he makes ' all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil.' God himself shews what was the only and sole reason of this dispensation, Heb. viii. 7 — 13. The...

...dispose of them ; they are still in his hands. Neither does he lose his end in creating them. God hath made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil. It possibly was Satan's design, in endeavouring the fall of man, to cause that God should lose the...