 | 1823 - 430 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Sarah Brealey - 1823 - 408 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pàgines
...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance." (Isaiah xl. 12 — 15.) " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtaiu, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwdM 196 THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. iii ." (Is. xl. 22.) This... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 pàgines
...understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, &c. that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One.' The reasoning, we see, turns... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 pàgines
...foundations of the earth? It is he that sitte'th upon the circle of the earth. &c. that stretchctb out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One.' The reasoning, we see, turns... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 570 pàgines
...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 are as grasshoppers ; he stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; he bringeth... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pàgines
...not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? 22 the sword, and have taken : 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pàgines
...the heavens like a veil or curtain/ We have the same allusion in the sublime strains of Isaiah : " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.g " The court is for the most part surrounded with a cloister, over which, when the house has a... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pàgines
...xl. 22. " He that sitteth on the circle," or above the orbit, " of the earth, (Comp. Job xxii. 14.) and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ;...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent, to dwell in." If we may suppose that the allusion is not to a common tent, but to the azure covering of the sacred... | |
 | Samuel Saunders (Baptist Minister.) - 1825 - 462 pàgines
...upon the wings of the wind. He sitteth on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers : that stretcheth out the heavens...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ! Will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain him... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges... 
