...28. " For it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people," Acts xxiii. 5 — " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy," Ex. xxxiii. 19. " For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on...

...privilege of every sovereign upon earth — not one of whom but would be apt to say with HIS SOVEREIGN, " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy" (Exod. xxxiii. 19), and could never be taxed with partiality in leaving...

...Moses, " Thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name." And again, in the 19th ver., " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy." And this is repeated by Paul, who thus speaks, " I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,...

...them, and chose their seed after them, above all people," He who said to Moses, Exod. xxxiii. 1 9, " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy to whom I will show mercy ;" and revealed himself, Exod. xxxiv. 6, as " the Lord God merciful...

...will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. Exev'.. xxxiii. 19. xxxiv. 5, 6. In thy fair book of life and grace 0 may...

...grace to admit of any other motive for his mercy, but his mercy ; and therefore he hath told us, " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy," Exod. xxxiii. 19. Since it is a God that pardons, it is infinitely...

...will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee ; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. " And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me...

...my Light (or Splendor) to pass by in thy presence.' The Syriac, however, has ' all my bless"gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy. " Rom. 4. 4, 16. edness,' and the Chai, retains the Heb. 1 goodness.' The true import of the...

...answers, that God favours his elect because he will, and has mercy because he will. For this oracle, " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy," (e) is equivalent to a declaration, that God is excited to mercy...

...consider it as exercised on men as innocent, but as guilty. Concerning whom was it that God said, " I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy?"* Concerning Israel, a people who had broken his covenant, and...