John Trapp on Isaiah 66:1

CHAP. LXVI.

Ver. 1. THus ſaith the Lord] The ſame he ſaith in effect here in this laſt Chapter, that he had done in the firſt; rejecting the Jews vain confidence in their Temple, and Sacrifices: and ſhewing that he was neither confined to their Temple, nor contented with their Sacrifices, ſo long as the hidden man of the heart and the ſpiritual worſhip was wanting: ſo long as they neglected his Laws, and ſerved their own luſts, ver. 3.

Heaven is my throne] Caelum eſt ſolium meum: there do I manifeſt the moſt glorious and viſible ſigns of my preſence: there I am in a ſpecial manner worſhipped according to mine exccellent gre[illegible: 1 letter]tneſſe: and there my Courtiers have a more ardent zeal for me, then thoſe flatterers had for Darius, Dan. 6.7.

The earth is my foot-ſtool] So it ſhould be ours: ſith God hath in Chriſt put all things under our feet, Pſal. 8.6. The earth hath its name in Hebrew from treading upon, and Terra à terendo: theſe earthly things ſhould be trampled on, as baſe and bootleſs.

Where is the houſe that ye build unto me?] q. d. An houſe indeed I commanded to be built for me, but not to hold me, or there to keep me coopt up as in a cell; that you ſhould there hence conclude, The Temple, Gods houſe, ſhall never periſh: therefore neither ſhall we. You muſt know that I am intra, & extra, & ſupra, & circa, & infra omnia within and without, and above, and about, and beneath all things.

Entèr praeſentèr Deus hic & ubique potenter.

This the Heathens knew; Empedocles ſaid, that God was a circle the center whereof is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. This the Turks acknowledge, by building their Moſches or Temples open at the top: to ſhew that God is nowhere circumſcriptively and definitively: but repletively everywhere. He is higher then Heaven, ſaith Bernard, deeper then Hell, larger then Earth, broader then the Sea: he is nowhere, and yet evrywhere, ye he is everywhere alpreſent. The Heavens have a large place, but they have one part here, and another there: but the Lord is totally preſent whereſoever preſent: not commenſurable by any place whatſoever.