| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...nature are beautifully and forcibly described in the prophet Isaiah. " Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? and meted out heaven with...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" Is. xl. 12. :, . 2. But though wisdom comprehends in it the rules of beauty and... | |
| Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - God - 1815 - 564 pages
...the number of his years be searched out. Heaven, and the heaven of hea^ vens cannot contain thee ; who* hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and... | |
| Robert Morehead - 1816 - 492 pages
...most impressive pictures of the omnipotence of God :-*" Who," says he, " hath measured the " waters in the hollow of his hand, and " meted out heaven...a balance ? " Who hath directed the spirit of the f Lord, or being his counsellor, hath ** taught him? Behold the nations are " as a drop of a bucket,... | |
| 1816 - 644 pages
...of the earth, by representing the Creator as often executing in detail his own Almighty decrees. " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his...and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended thp dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the bills in a balance?"... | |
| John Macgowan - Christian life - 1816 - 742 pages
...could suppose the prophet describing a mere creature, who has not existed eighteen hundred years. ' Who ' hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand : and meted ' out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth ' in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,... | |
| Barnaby Murphy - Church year sermons - 1816 - 346 pages
...immensity ; who, in the sublime language of scripture, measured the waters in the hollow <oS his hands, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ! Who stretched out the North over the empty place, and hanireth the heaven upon nothing; before whom hell... | |
| Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...world to God. For between that which is finite and that which is infinite, there is no comparison. ' Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the email dust... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 290 pages
...by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens—Prov. iii. 19. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance—Isa. xl. 12. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 292 pages
...by wisdom hath founded the earth ; by understanding hath he established the heavens. Prov. iii. 19. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his...the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a scale, and the hills in a balance. Isa. xl. 12. It is he that sitteth upon the circle'of the earth,... | |
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