| Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Josiah Priest - 1825 - 660 páginas
...dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in,' Isaiah *]. made them all : i •, -Let every thing that hath bn i!.i And - Bless the TIT :B. ok. of... | |
| James Hervey - 1825 - 476 páginas
...and solemn dulness, in order to maintain a more uninterrupted communion with that mighty Being, " who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers before him;" Isa. xl. 22.* Welcome to Theron was the shady bower ; welcome the cool aspect and the... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 542 páginas
...worship ! " the heaven of heavens cannot contain him," he is the King of kings and Lord of lords ; he sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; he is clothed with honour and majesty, thousand thousands minister unto him, ten thousand times ten... | |
| James Hervey - 1825 - 424 páginas
...and solemn dulness, in order to maintain a more uninterrupted communion with that mighty Being who ' sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers before him.'f Welcome toTheron was the shady bower; welcome the * It is thought by some eminent critics,... | |
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