To whom will ye liken me?
&c.] Was it lawful that any likeness might be made, which yet
is forbidden, ( Exodus 20:4 ) what
likeness could be thought of? is there any creature in heaven or
earth, among all the angels or sons of men, to whom God can be
likened, who has done such works of power, and acts of grace, as
to care and provide not only for the house of Israel, from the
beginning of their state to the close of it, but for all his
creatures from the beginning of life to the end thereof, yea,
from the beginning of the world to the end of it, and has shown
such special grace and goodness to his chosen people, in such a
kind and tender manner? And make me equal;
or any equal to him in power and goodness, since all are but
worms, dust, and ashes, as the small dust of the balance, yea, as
nothing in comparison of him. And compare me, that we may
be like?
which is impossible to be done; for what comparison or likeness
can there be between the Creator and a creature, between an
infinite, immense, and eternal Being, possessed of all
perfections, and a finite, frail, imperfect one? see ( Isaiah 40:18
) . To pretend to frame a likeness of such a Being, is to act the
absurd and stupid part the Heathens do, described in the
following verses.
Isaiah 46:5
