| John Wesley - Biography - 1792 - 728 pages
...u'ho fet all the borders of the earth, who madefummer and winter, be/ore whom; the nation) are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance, who holdeth thefeain the palm efhif hand, and taheth up the i/lts as a very little thing : — Do you... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 630 pages
...an inconfiderable creature before God: If. xl. 15 — 17. " Behold the nations are before him but " as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance : behold, he takah up the ides as a very little thing. — All nations before him are as nothing., and they are... | |
| Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 pages
...the Holy Spirit, whereby the glory of Jehovah is difplayed, and the nobleft purpofes accomplifhed. 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...behold, he taketh up the ifles as a very little thing. It might be objected to the new difpenfation of grace, that it was introduced by the Spirit of the... | |
| John Dick - Bible - 1800 - 314 pages
...in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge,• and fhewed' to him the way of underflanding ? Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...behold he taketh up the ifles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not fuftkient to burn, nor the beafts thereof fnfficient for a burnt-offering. All nations... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...sitteth upon the circle of the earth; and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Ethold 'all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the srnali dust of the balance'. 'All before him are as nothing, and the$ are counted to hi)n IKSS than... | |
| Thomas Halyburton - Salvation - 1801 - 382 pages
...lofty one that inhabits eternity, he who is the great God, and a great King, above all the earth : behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...fmall duft of the balance: behold, he taketh up the ides as a •very little thing ; and Lebanon is not fufEcient to burn, nor nor the beafts thereof fufficient... | |
| Thomas Halyburton - Salvation - 1801 - 388 pages
...lofty one that inhabits eternity, he who is. the great God* and a great Kini-, above all the earth : behold, the nations Are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the ftnall duft of the balance: behold, he taketh up the iffes as a very little thing ; and Lebanon is... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Deism - 1801 - 340 pages
...him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and jhewed ta him the way of understanding ? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the /mall ditft of the balance : behold, he taleth up the ijles of a very little thing. And Lebanon is... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...of this JEHOJJ^IH of the illiterate Jews! before whom, to use this poet's own words, all other gods are ' as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.' Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 488 pages
...proper sense and proper apprehensions of Jehovah ? He is nothing, and less than nothing and vanity. " Behold the nations are as a drop of' " a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance ; " behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Le" ban.... | |
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