 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...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 they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...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 they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 pages
...being his counsellor, hath taught him, &c.1 Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing, &c. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, or in his presence, less than nothing.' From these awful and emplmtic.il questions God draws this conclusion•... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 570 pages
...thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. — He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 758 pages
...as the burning of lime ; as thorns cut up, shall they be burned in the fire." Isaiah xxxiii. 12. * " All nations before him are as nothing ; and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity." Isaiah xl. 17. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house... | |
 | John Flavel - 1824 - 302 pages
...very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity," Isa. xl. 15 — 17. When the holiest men have addressed themselves... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity." — How magnificently doth scripture decipher this glorious Majesty... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 568 pages
...that there is between him and us ; not only as he is " in heaven, while we are upon earth ; but as all nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity," Isa. xl. 17- It is founded in his absolute superiority over us, and... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 362 pages
...degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity;" Ps. Ixii, 9. " All nations before him are as nothing ; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity ;" Isa. xl, 17. In order, therefore, to make acceptable approaches in... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...that there is between him and us ; not only as he is " in heaven, while we are upon earth ; but as all nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity," Isa. xl. 17. It is founded in his absolute superiority over us, and... | |
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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. 
