 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...in Twaddling Bands. Chap . xxxviii. 8, 9. He is reprefented as having meted out Heaven with a Span, and comprehended the Duft of the Earth in a Meafure, and weighed the Mountains in Scales, and the Hills in a Balance. If. xl. 12. The Lord hath his Way in the Whirlwind, and in the... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 470 pages
...Inconvenience. God is reprefented in the beautiful Language of the Prophet, as having, when he made the World, 'comprehended the Duft of the Earth in a Meafure, and weighed the Mountains in Scales, and the HUh in a Balance. If. xl. 12. The Manner .of Expreffion (hews that in forming this... | |
 | William Worthington - Bible and geology - 1773 - 524 pages
...fit ; wiping it as a man wipeth a dlfh, and turning it upfde down*. The prophet afks the queftion, Who hath meafured the waters in the hollow of his hand? And meted out the heavens with a fpan, and comprehended the duJi of the earth in a meafure ; and weighed the mountains... | |
 | Edmund Ball - 1774 - 66 pages
...God. Who hath mealured the Waters in the Hollow of'his Hand ? and meeted out the Heaven with a Span, and comprehended the Duft of the Earth in a meafure, and weighed the Mountains in Scales; and the Hills in a Balance ? And therefore it appears, that Creative Power, cannot but only... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1796 - 666 pages
...fliouted for joy." It is he who meafured the "waters in the hollow of his hand, meted out heaven with a fpan, and comprehended the duft. of the Earth in a meafure, and weighed the mountains.in fcales and the hills in a balance. Before him the nations are as a drop ot the bucket,... | |
 | 1785 - 772 pages
...and coiifolation. The Lord is great, and we know him not : His greatneli is unfearchable. Who but he hath meafured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with a fpan? Thine, О Lord, is the greatncls. and the powrr, and the glory, and the viftory,... | |
 | Richard Watson - Christian life - 1791 - 558 pages
...and " created man upon it ; that he ftretched out the heavens, and com" manded all their hofts. He meafured the waters in the hollow of his " hand, and. meted out the heavens with a fpan, and comprehended the " duft of the earth in a meafure, and weighed'the mountains... | |
 | 1793 - 310 pages
...lefs than nothing, and E 4 vanity vanity introduced making the following fublime enquiTf \ " Who harh meafured the waters in the hollow of " his hand, and meted out heaven with a fpan, and " comprehended the duft of the earth in a meafure, and " weighed the mountains in fcales,... | |
 | George Adams - Science - 1794 - 622 pages
...conlider the immcnfity of HIS powci, who regulates and governs all thcfe wide extended motions ; " who hath meafured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with afpan." " Who turns his eye, on nature's midnight face, BUT MUST iNoyiRE What hand behind the fcene,... | |
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Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 
