...! All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted to Him, less than nothing and vanity! To whom, then, will ye liken me, or shall I be equal...hath created these things, that bringeth out their host1>y number : He calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that He is strong...

...But the Lord made the heavens." — Isaiah xl. 25, 26. " To whom then will ye liken me, or shall 1 be equal ? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things." How plain is it here, that creating the world is spoken of as a work of the Supreme God, most evidently...

...that holy volume in which he is more fully displayed. How conspicuous, for instance, is hispower ! " Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their hosts by number : he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might ; for that he is strong...

...&c. Isaiah xl. 18, 25. " To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him. To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One." Habakkuk ii. 18, 19. " What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it — the...

...before me." In the book of the prophet Isaiah, which he held in his hand, he had read — " To whom will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the HOLY ONE." " I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me." " The everlasting God, the Creator...

...Abraham, "I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect;" and by the prophet Isaiah, " To whom will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ?" saith the Holy One, not the Holy Three. I told them that the words ME and ONE did utterly exclude any other person's being...

...to us in his divine word, they also require us to contemplate the Author of Nature in his works. " Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things." They speak of the works of creation as presenting the plainest proofs of an all powerful and divine...

...the difficulty increased. But when God is introduced, the difficulty becomes supreme. For, " to whom will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." From their knowledge of the general principles of their nature, which are the same in all, men may,...

...and his strength is in the clouds : O God, Thou art terrible in thy holy places!"—or with Isaiah, " To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal...these things: that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them all by their names, by the greatness of his might, for that He is strong in power!"...

...as the proof of his own Divinity in opposition to idols, and to all beings whatever : — " To whom will ye liken me, or shall I be equal, saith the Holy...on high, and behold who hath created these things." This claim must of necessity cut off from every other being the power of creating in any degree, that...