| John Flavel - 1671 - 576 strani
...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 they are... | |
| 1753 - 750 strani
...of this JEHOVAH of the illiterate Jews ; oefore whom (to ufe this poet's own words) all other gods are as a drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the Jmall daß of the balance ? Had I been acquainted with this xvonderful volume, while I was writing... | |
| Titus Knight - 1766 - 480 strani
...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... | |
| 1793 - 310 strani
...of this Jehovah of the illiterate Jews ! before whom, to ufe this poet's own word*, all ether Gods are " as a drop of a bucket, and are counted " as the fmall duft of the balance." Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 330 strani
...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 treatise on the Pathetic,... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1803 - 422 strani
...him in the path of judgment, 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 burn, nor... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 strani
...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. *n is not sufficient... | |
| 1803 - 240 strani
...of this 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 Pathetic,... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 560 strani
...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... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 strani
...'him in the path of judgment, 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; and... | |
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