John Trapp on Isaiah 64:8

Ver. 8. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father] Or, Yet now, O Lord, thou art our Father: therefore we ſhall not dye, ſay they, Hab. 1.12. boldly, but warrantably. See on chap. 63.16.

We are the clay and thou art our potter] This was grown to a Proverb among the Heathens alſo, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Man is a clod of clay, [non-Latin text not transcribed], a piece of clay, neatly made up, ſaith Arrian upon Epictetus. Fictus ex argilla & luto homulus, Orat. ad Piſon. ſaith Cicero. And Nigidius was ſirnamed Figulus or the Potter, ſaith Auguſtine, becauſe he uſed to ſay that man was nothing elſe but an earthen veſſel. See 2 Cor. 4.7. & 5.1.

We are all the work of thy hands] Both as made, and re-made by Thee: therefore deſpiſe us not, Job 10.8, 9 Pſal. 138.8. Look upon the wounds of thy hands, and forſake not the work of thine hands, prayed Queen Eliſabeth.