 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...a man ! great indeed is the mystery of godliness. " Behold, (saith the prophet, Isa. 40 : 15, 17,) the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance ; he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing, and... | |
 | 1784 - 522 pages
...light, and the Sun,—wt>ofet all the borders of the. earth, -who madefummer and winter ; before whom the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the ballanee ; who holdeth the fea in the palm of his hand ; and taketh up the iJJes... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1796 - 404 pages
...counfel, and who inftrucJed him, and taught him knowledge, and Jhewcd him the way of under/landing? Behold, the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the f mall dujl of the balance. Behold, he taketh up the ijles as a very little thing. All nations before... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1792 - 728 pages
...the fun, 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...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 treatise on the... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 488 pages
...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. *n is not sufficient to burn,... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 560 pages
...apprehensions of Jehovah ? He is nothing, and less than nothing and vanity. " Behold the nations are ao a drop of " a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance ; " hehold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Le" banon is not sufficient to burn,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 240 pages
...Jehovah 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 treatise on the... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1803 - 422 pages
...and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? 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. And Lebanon is not sufficient to... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? 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. All nations before him are as nothing;... | |
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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. 
