Beginning with Romans 9, Beddome sets out the traditional Calvinist doctrine. The phrase 'The Father infinite' is from the Athanasian Creed. Dust and worms are biblical terms for man. John Donne speaks of us as both dust and worms. The sentiment was once a common one and is from the Bible itself.
19 Divine Sovereignty CM
THE potter different vessels forms Of the same lump of clay And may not God, o'er sinful worms, An equal power display?
Is it not meet that he should deal His sovereign favours still; And his own purposes conceal, While he performs his will?
Great Lord supreme, we must submit, Nor call thy ways unjust; Thou art the Father infinite, And we but worms and dust.
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