...becomes foolish.' His transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly represented, when he ' sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : all nations before him are as the drop of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance: he takes...

...offensive, and their makers and worshippers justly expose themselves to the cutting reproof of Isaiah : " To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him ? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance...

...do it against his commandment, but foolish, and impossible, and against all natural reason. "To whom will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him ? " said God by the prophet": meaning, that there is none, there can be none: and you may as well measure...

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...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 him ?" But I do not urge authority to the persons I am at present speaking to. It is sufficiently evident,...

...arc to understand, that HE whom " the heaven of heavens cannot contain," 1 Kings viii. 27, — HE who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers," Isa. xl. 22, — He, before whom all nations are as nothing, and counted to HIM less than nothing and...

...reptile ! that, like an insect in the ground, would seek to magnify the greatness of that being who " sitteth upon the circle of the "earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers."* In connexion with the error which we have been noticing there exists another, equally common, and,...

...as \ve ought in the strait path through evil and good report, forgetting too often, " It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell...

...that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. — Isa. xvii. 7, 8. Hosea xiv. 8. To whom then will ye liken God > or what likeness will ye compare unto him ? The workman melteth a graven image, &c.— Isa. xl. 18—20. 25. The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith...

...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 him? He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, &c. that bringeth the princes- to nothing, &c. To whom...