...in a " measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, " and the hills in a balance ?" " 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 ;...

...mountains in scales, and the * 2 Cor. i. 20. t Zech. vi. 13. hills in a balance? — 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,...

...station. And compared with the blessed God, we cannot think too low of ourselves. So " 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," Isa. xl. 15. AH the relations in which we...

...works, we must necessarily form very scanty conceptions of that Supreme Being, before whom all nations are as a " drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance." * The apostles, I. observe, delight to use this method of displaying the honours of the Redeemer, and...

...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...

...judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? 15 Behold, the nations me came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23 Thus he said, The fourth' behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor...

...station. And compared with the blessed God, we cannot think too low of ourselves. So " the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance ; behold, he take 'th up the isles as a very little thing," Isa. xl. 15. All the relations in which...

...Ps. xcv, 1 — 3. " The Lord reigneth ; let the earth rejoice :" Ps. xcvii, 1. " 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 :" Isa. xl, 15. "O Lord God of our fathers,...

...insignificance itself in his sight, they are " reputed as nothing," " the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance, less than nothing, and vanity."* My brethren, the subject before us has been addressed too exclusively...

...under. ^m knowledge, and shewed to him the way of § undertta»<ites,i standing? 15 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. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,...