 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.  Sermons... - Page 202by Samuel Clarke - 1743Full view - About this book
 | 1611 - 360 lehte
...sufficient for a burnt offering. 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 him ? The workman melteth a graven image, And the goldsmith spreadeth... | |
 | John Stalham - 1657 - 380 lehte
...fimilitude - y The Prophet anfwereth him, or rather the holy Ghoft by the Prophet, Ifa 40. 18. To whom will ye liken God? or what likenefs will ye compare unto him ? or, we may in allufion thereunto fay, Who (hall compare the eflence of the Creator, to the eflence... | |
 | Samuel Annesley - 1671 - 678 lehte
...burn, nor the hafts thereof fufficicnt for a burnt offering, v. ij.all things before him лге at nothing, and they are counted to him lefs than nothing and vanity. Ex pede Here kits. By thi« glorious defpription we may guefs (and that is til) at enough in God, to... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1688 - 434 lehte
...that he is fo great and glorious a Being, that nothing in the World is a fit Reprefentation of him : To whom then will ye liken God ? or what likenefs will ye compare unto him ? —-It is be that Jttteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants Jfo *' I8t thereof are... | |
 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 lehte
...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 accounted to him less than nothing, and vanity." If, indeed, this great and incomprehensible Majesty... | |
 | Lewis Atterbury - 1706 - 236 lehte
...For as the Pro* phet tells us, there is nothing that we ' can liken God to, Ifa. 40. 18. To whow * will ye liken God ? or, What likenefs will * ye compare unto him ? We debate his (pi* ritual and incorruptible Nature, when ' we compare him to corruptible Crea' tures,... | |
 | John Dunton - 1708 - 596 lehte
...and Ocean of Mercy an 1 Love that is in him ; How little a Portion is heard . of him ? Job 24. 14. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lefs than nothing, Vanity, //<«. 40. 12, I5,.i7, 22. O how great is he that hangeth the Earth upon nothing ! ^0^24.7.... | |
 | William Whiston - 1717 - 376 lehte
...Thing. And Lebanon is not fufficient to Burn, nor the Beafts thereof tufficient for a Burnt Offering. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lefs than Nothing, and Vanity. xlv> a I am the Lord, and there is none elfe, there , ' is no God befides me : I girded thee, though... | |
 | Philo-Delphus (pseud.) - 1719 - 332 lehte
...there is no Difference betwixt the publick and private Good, in comparifon to God's Glory. Jf.xl-ij. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him at" left than Vanity and Nothing, And if a Nation or any People (hould be reduced to this Streight,... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1722 - 360 lehte
...And Lebanon is notfufficient to burn ; nor the j^. tea/is thereof fufficient for a burnt-facrifice. All nations before him are as nothing ; and they are counted to him lefs 1 8. than nothing and vanity. To whom will you liken God? $ 2 1 , *•" what likenefs will you compare... | |
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