Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 115:3
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Psalms115:3
3 But our God is in the heavens , he hath done whatsoever he pleased .
Whom, notwithstanding your reproaches, we are not ashamed to owne for our God.
Although he have no visible shape nor bodily presence with us here upon earth, as your Idols have, which is a certain proof of their baseness and weakness, yet he hath a certain and a glorious place where he resideth, even the highest heavens, where he is cloathed with infinite Power and Majesty, and from whence he beholdeth and governeth this lower world, and all that is in it.
Or, he doth, &c. By his onely will and pleasure all things were at first made, and are still disposed, and without this nothing cometh to pass. And therefore all your insolencies and injuries and successes against us do not come from an invincible power in you or in your Idols, nor from any defect of strength or goodness in our God, but onely from hence, that it pleased him for many wise and holy reasons to afflict us, and to give you prosperity for a time.
Marginal references: Psal. 135. 6.
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