Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 64:8

8 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 .

An argument, or pathetical plea for pity; or, notwithstanding all this thou art our Father both by Creation, and by Adoption, therefore pity us thy Children.

A Metonymy of the matter, clay for the vessels made of clay: Or, we are clay, pointing at our Original matter: Or, it may relate to their state, that God framed into a Body Civil and Ecclesiastical out of a confused multitude; they plead at the same time their own frailty, why they would be pitied, and God's Covenant-interest in them, why he should pity them

Another argument of the same nature with the former, Psal. 138. 8. not onely as men, but as a Body of men made thy peculiar People.

Marginal references: Ch. 29. 16. & 4[illegible: 1+ letters]. 9. [illegible: 1 word]. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 6. Rom. 9. 20, 21.