| Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and fhewed to him the way of underftanding ? v. 15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance : Behold, he taketh up the ifles as a very little thing, v. 16. And Lebanon... | |
| Titus Knight - Sermons - 1766 - 480 pages
...country or kingdom, but the habitable world, the whole compafs and extent of the terraqueous globe, " are as a drop of a bucket ; and are " counted as the duft of the balance ;" the duft which is difpetfed by the fmalleft breeze, and fcattered by the leaft... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...path of judgment, and taught him * knowledge, and mewed to him the way of un* derftanding ? Behold, the nations are as a * drop of a bucket ; and are counted as the fmall * duft of the balance : behold, he takes up the * isles as a very little thing * ; and I^banon... | |
| Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...of judgment, and 'aught him knowledge, and ihewed to him the way of uoderflanding ? v. ijr Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fuiali duft-of the balance : Behold, he takech up the ifl .-s as a very little thino, y, i$, And Lebanon... | |
| John Leland - 1769 - 526 pages
...proftrate in the deepeft Adorations of the infinite Jehovah ! Behold, (as the Prophet there addeth,) the Nations are as a Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the fmall Duft of the Balance. This is reprefenting Mankind under a very diminutive Idea. But as if even... | |
| William Farington - Sermons, English - 1769 - 380 pages
...critdelitatis in patriae civiumqe pernicie fama Subeunda eft, Cicero. Or. 4. Catil. F 3 hold! bold I the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall dujl of the balance : all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him ; they... | |
| William Worthington - Bible and geology - 1773 - 524 pages
...in a balance ? * z Kings, xxi. 13. Who but the Lord God omnipotent ? The Lord mighty in ftrength : Before whom the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance ; and who taketh up the ijles, as a very little thing ? Before whom all nations... | |
| James Hervey - 1777 - 628 pages
...his Works ; we muft neceffarily form vety fcanty Conceptions of that SUPREME .BEING, before whom all Nations are as a " Drop of a Bucket, " and are counted as thefmall Duft of the Balance." (if I maybe allowed the Exprcffion), and with an Evangelical Microfcope.... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Natural theology - 1782 - 478 pages
...who " inftru&ed him, and taught him know" ledge,' and (hewed him the way of un" derflanding ? Behold, the nations are as " a drop of a bucket, and' are counted as " the fmall duft of the balance : behold, he " taketh up the ifles as a very little thing" All nations before... | |
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