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For the scripturesaith unto Pharaoh, Even for*this same purpose have I raisedtheeup, that I might shewmypowerinthee,andthatmyname might be declaredthroughoutall the earth.
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Thereforehath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, andwhom he will he hardeneth.
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Nay but,Oman,whoartthou that repliest againstGod*? Shall the thing formedsay to him that formed it, Why hast thou mademethus?
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Hathnot the potterpower over the clay,of the samelumpto*make one vesseluntohonour,andanotheruntodishonour?
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What if*God,willing to shew his wrath,and to makehispowerknown, enduredwithmuchlongsuffering the vessels of wrathfitted[a]todestruction:
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Andthat he might make known the riches of hisgloryon the vessels of mercy,which he had afore prepareduntoglory,
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Evenus,whom he hath called, notof the Jewsonly,butalsoof the Gentiles?
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As he saithalsoinOsee, I will call them mypeople, which were notmypeople;and her beloved, which wasnotbeloved.
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And it shall come to pass, that in the placewhere* it was said unto them,Ye are notmypeople;there shall they be called the children of the livingGod.
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EsaiasalsocriethconcerningIsrael,Though the number of the children of Israelbeas the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: