 | John Leland - 1769 - 526 strani
...proftrate in the deepeft Adorations of the infinite Jehovah ! Behold, (as the Prophet there addeth,) the Nations are as a Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the fmall Duft of the Balance. This is reprefenting Mankind under a very diminutive Idea. But as if even this were too advantageous... | |
 | William Farington - 1769 - 380 strani
...critdelitatis in patriae civiumqe pernicie fama Subeunda eft, Cicero. Or. 4. Catil. F 3 hold! bold I the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall dujl of the balance : all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him ; they are... | |
 | John Owen - 1772 - 498 strani
...nations are as. the drop of the bucket,, and are counted as thefmall duft of the ballance : He takes up the ifles as a very little thing ; all nations before him are as nothing,, they, are counted unto him lefs than, nothing,, and vanity, Ifa. xl» 15, 17, 22: To what end doth... | |
 | William Worthington - 1773 - 524 strani
...balance ? * z Kings, xxi. 13. Who but the Lord God omnipotent ? The Lord mighty in ftrength : Before whom the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance ; and who taketh up the ijles, as a very little thing ? Before whom all nations are as nothing, and... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 strani
...in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and (hewed to him the way of underlhmdmg? v. 15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted II. The firil covenant made with man was a covenant of works ¿, wherein life was promifed to Adam,... | |
 | James Hervey - 1777 - 628 strani
...his Works ; we muft neceffarily form vety fcanty Conceptions of that SUPREME .BEING, before whom all Nations are as a " Drop of a Bucket, " and are counted as thefmall Duft of the Balance." (if I maybe allowed the Exprcffion), and with an Evangelical Microfcope.... | |
 | 1784 - 522 strani
...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 as a very little thing... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 558 strani
...a balance. HeMoucheth the mountains, and they " frnoke; he looks upon the earth, and it trembleth. Behold, the nations " are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the " earth. Behold, he takes up the ifles as a very little thing. All na" tions are before him as nothing,... | |
 | 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 treatife on the Pathetic,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 strani
...counfel, and who inftru&ed him, and taught " him knowledge, and fhewed him the way of un" derftanding ? Behold, the nations are as a drop " of a bucket, and are counted as the fin all duft " of the balance : behold, h: taketh up the ifles as " a very little thing. All nations... | |
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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. 
