John Trapp on Ezekiel 4:2

Ver. 2. And lay ſiege againſt it] This to carnal reaſon ſeemeth childiſh and ridiculous: not unlike the practiſe of boyes that make forts of ſnow: or of the Papiſts St. Francis, who made him a wife and children of ſnow; fair, but ſoon fading comforts: or of his diſciple Maſſaeus, who is much magnified, becauſe at his maſters command, he did (not Diogenes-like, tumble his tub, but) himſelf tumble up and down as a little one, in reference to that of our Saviour,Sedulius l. 3. c. 1 Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye ſhall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven, Mat. 18.3. But it muſt be conſidered, that what the Prophet did here, he did by the Word and Command of the moſt wiſe God. This made the ſacrifices of old, and doth make the Sacraments ſtill to be reverend and tremend; becauſe holy and reverend is his Name who inſtituted them. It cannot be ſaid ſo of Popiſh ceremonies, mens inventions: they have not Gods image or inſcription; and are therefore frivolous and fruitleſſe, worthily caſt out of our Churches.