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God Cannot Be Represented By An Image. We Ought Not To Think That The Godhead Is Like Unto Gold, Or Silver, Or Stone, Graven By Art And Man's Device. We Wrong God, And Put An Affront Upon Him, If We Think So. God Honoured Man In Making His Soul After His Own Likeness; But Man Dishonours God If He Makes Him After The Likeness Of His Body. The Godhead Is Spiritual, Infinite, Immaterial, Incomprehensible, And Therefore It Is A Very False And Unjust Conception Which An Image Gives Us Of God.

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God Cannot Be Represented

Matthew Henry

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God Cannot Be Represented By An Image. We Ought Not To Think That The Godhead Is Like Unto Gold, Or Silver, Or Stone, Graven By Art And Man's Device. We Wrong God, And Put An Affront Upon Him, If We Think So. God Honoured Man In Making His Soul After His Own Likeness; But Man Dishonours God If He Makes Him After The Likeness Of His Body. The Godhead Is Spiritual, Infinite, Immaterial, Incomprehensible, And Therefore It Is A Very False And Unjust Conception Which An Image Gives Us Of God.

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The Prayers And Supplications That Christ Offered Up Were, Joined With Strong Cries And Tears, Herein Setting Us Example Not Only To Pray, But To Be Fervent And Importunate In Prayer. How Many Dry Prayers, How Few Wet Ones, Do We Offer Up To God!

A Garment That Is Double Dyed, Dipped Again And Again, Will Retain The Color A Great While; So A Truth Which Is The Subject Of Meditation.

It Is A Sin Against God Not To Pray For The Israel Of God, Especially For Those Of Them That Are Under Our Charge. Good Men Are Afraid Of The Guilt Of Omissions ( I Samuel 12).

We Have No Sufficient Strength Of Our Own. All Our Sufficiency Is Of God. We Should Stir Up Ourselves To Resist Temptations In A Reliance Upon God's All-sufficiency And The Omnipotence Of His Might.

It Is Better To Get Wisdom Than Gold. Gold Is Another's, Wisdom Is Our Own; Gold Is For The Body And Time, Wisdom For The Soul And Eternity.

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If Therefore Our Houses Be Houses Of The Lord, We Shall For That Reason Love Home, Reckoning Our Daily Devotion The Sweetest Of Our Daily Delights, And Our Family Worship The Most Valuable Of Our Family Comforts. This Will Sanctify To Us All The Conveniences Of Our Houses, And Reconcile Us To The Inconveniences Of It.

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In Order To The Attaining Of All Useful Knowledge This Is Most Necessary, That We Fear God; We Are Not Qualified To Profit By The Instructions That Are Given Us Unless Our Minds Be Possessed With A Holy Reverence Of God, And Every Thought Within Us Be Brought Into Obedience To Him.... As All Our Knowledge Must Take Rise From The Fear Of God, So It Must Tend To It As Its Perfection And Centre. Those Know Enough Who Know How To Fear God, Who Are Careful In Every Thing To Please Him And Fearful Of Offending Him In Any Thing; This Is The Alpha And Omega Of Knowledge.

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Those Who Complain Most Are Most To Be Complained Of.

Here Is Bread, Which Strengthens Man's Heart, And Therefore Is Called The Staff Of Life.

All This And Heaven Too.

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