Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 16:20
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Jeremiah16:20
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no Gods ?
It is doubtful whether these be to be understood as the words of God, shewing the unreasonableness of the Sin of Idolatry, or as others who make them the continued speech of the Gentiles who after their Conversion, should see the unreasonableness of worshipping the works of their own hands. Whoso owneth a God, owneth an nfinite being, a first Cause and mover, and Creator of all things. Now can any be so sottishly stupid as to think that a finite being, should give a being to an Infinite Being; that he who is a Creature, should make his Creator, that he should be a Cause to the first Cause? (things which are all contradictions to the common sense of men.) A man is no God himself, how can he communicate a Divine nature which himself hath not to another?
Marginal references: chap. 2.11.
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