Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 45:18

18. For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, & made it, he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited, I am the LORD, and there is none else .

This description of God is here added, Either 1. To detect the vanity of Idols, by asserting, that none was to be owned as the tr[illegible: 1+ letters]e God, besides that one God who made the Heavens and the Earth, and the Inhabitants thereof: Or, 2. To demonstrate Gods Sufficiency to fulfil all these glorious promises made to his Church, because he made the World out of nothing, and upholds it by the word of his Power; and withal to discover Gods goodness to mankind, inasmuch as he did not Create the Earth in vain, but for the use and comfort of men, that it might be a fit habitation for them: whence it was easy to infer, that God would much more be gracious to his own People.

Marginal references: Chap. 42. 5.; ver. 5.