 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.  Sermons... - Page 202by Samuel Clarke - 1743Full view - About this book
 | Cheyney Hart - 1761 - 274 pages
...Lebanon is not fufficient to burn, nor the Beafls thereof fufficient for a Burnt-Offering. 28. Al| Nations before Him are as Nothing; and they are counted to Him lefs than Nothing and Vanity. 30. Day unto. Day uttereth Speech, and Night unto Night fheweth Knowledge. 29. THE HEAVENS declare... | |
 | Theophilus Lobb - Bible - 1761 - 330 pages
...Glory it is to be unlike all fenfible Objecls, and infinitely to tranfcend the mod excellent Creatures. To whom then will ye liken God ? Or what Likenefs will ye compare to him ? Jays the infpired Prophet Ifaiah xl. 18. and v. 25. To whom then will ye liken me ? or Jhall... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...And Lebanon is not fufficicnt to burn, nor the bcails thereof lufficient for a burnt offering, v. 17. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lefs than nothing, and vanity. Job. ix. 32. For he is not a man, as I am, that I ihouJd anfwer him, and we Ihould come together in... | |
 | Titus Knight - Sermons - 1766 - 480 pages
...we mould yet fet fome value upon what we do, as conceiving ourfelves to be fomething, it is added, all nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lefs (ban nothing and vanity. Now after due attention given to this humbling fcripture, wherein we fee the... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...not fufficient for him to burn, nor the beafts * thereof for a burnt offering. All nations be* fore him are as nothing ; and they are counted " to; him lefs than nothing, and vanity." In * VITRINCA renders tin's verfe, " Ecce genres funt ut " gutta de fitula, reputanturqtte ut pulvifculos... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...fumaient to burn, nor tin heads thereof fuificicnt for a burnt offering, v. 1 7, All mtions before him ire as nothing, and they are counted to him lefs than nothing, and vanity. Job ix. 33. For he is not a nun, as I am, that I ihould anfwer him. and •we mould гопк together... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 520 pages
...of a bucket, and are coun" ted as the fmall duft of the balance ; he taketh up the ifles " as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing " and they are accounted to him lefs than nothing, and vanity." If, indeed, this great and incomprehenfible majefty... | |
 | Jacques Abbadie - Socinianism - 1777 - 378 pages
...repeatedly and folemnly declared, by the prophets, That there is "none like him." For thus it is written : " To whom, then, will " ye liken God ? or what likenefs will ye com" pare unto him ? — To whom, then, will ye " liken me, or (hall I be equal, faith the Holy " One... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Natural theology - 1782 - 478 pages
...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 him are as nothing,...ye liken God ? or what likenefs will ye " compare compare unto him ? Have ye not known ? *' have ye not heard ? hath it not been told " you from the... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Religious poetry - 1793 - 384 pages
...verily he took not on him the nature of angels ; but he took on him the feed of Abraham. m Ifa. xl. 17. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are...and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God ? or what hkcnefs will ye compare unto him ? n Pfal ix. ID. They that know thy name will put their truft in thee.... | |
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