<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412635" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 117</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Election sovereign and free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rom. 9:20-23. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold the potter and the clay,<br>He forms his vessels as he please:<br>Such is our God, and such are we,<br>The subjects of his high decrees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Doth not the workman's power extend<br>O'er all the mass, which part to choose<br>And mold it for a nobler end,<br>And which to leave for viler use?]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May not the sovereign Lord on high<br>Dispense his favors as he will,<br>Choose some to life, while others die,<br>And yet be just and gracious still?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[What if, to make his terror known,<br>He lets his patience long endure,<br>Suff'ring vile rebels to go on,<br>And seal their own destruction sure?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if he means to show his grace,<br>And his electing love employs<br>To mark out some of mortal race,<br>And form them fit for heav'nly joys?]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall man reply against the Lord,<br>And call his Maker's ways unjust,<br>The thunder of whose dreadful word<br>Can crush a thousand worlds to dust?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, O my soul! if truths so bright<br>Should dazzle and confound thy sight,<br>Yet still his written will obey,<br>And wait the great decisive day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shall he make his justice known,<br>And the whole world before his throne<br>With joy or terror shall confess<br>The glory of his righteousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412635" data-title="Hymn 117 de Isaac Watts" data-description="Election sovereign and free. Rom. 9:20-23. Behold the potter and the clay, He forms his vessels as he please: Such is our God, and such are we, The subjects of his high decrees. [Doth not the workman's power extend O'er all the mass, which par..."></div> </div> </div>

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