...all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father ; we are the clay, and 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...

...Bible. The principle on which the character is formed is so incontestably * "But now, 0 Lord, thou art our Father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand." — Isaiah Ixiv. 8. " For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that...

...from us, and hast •)• con- t Heb. sumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, thou ; ; thy hand. 9 5F Be not ° wroth very sore, O • LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever : behold,...

...will, as a potter does with his vessel, Rom. ix. 21; accotding as the church speaks, Isa. Ixiv. 8. " We are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand;" yet he cannot pollute any undefiled creature by virtue of that sovereign power which he...

...&c. Isa. xlv. 1 1 . Once more (to pass by many other places of like import) " But now, O Lord, thou art our Father ; we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand," Isa. Ixiv. 8. As in the former passages, God strengthened the faith...

...Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. Is. Ixiv. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thine hand. Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the...

...iniquities. 6 But plead for us ! We are thy creatures, now, O LORD, thou art our the work of th.v hand ! father ; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all o TV the work of thy hand. * Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, ' Let thin« °<™ honour interfere to...

...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 clay, and 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...

...the plain clay is used by the Hebrew prophets as a symbol of creation. Thus Isaiah: " O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are thework of thy hand." (Isai. 64. 8.) The same image is still more forcibly used by the prophet Jeremiah...

...thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, 0 Lord, thou art our Father ; we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, 0 Lord, neither remember iniquity forever ; behold, see, we beseech...