From the greatness of Gods Majesty, and the immensity of his works,1 and that is the reason of the words here annexed; there is none like him:2 as in verse 5. of this Chapter you shall see ⟨p. 77⟩it more plainly. So, Among the gods, 3there is none like to thee, O Lord, neither are there any works like thy works. Where you see that they are both put together; there is none like to him for the greatness of his Majesty, nor for the immensity of his works. More particularly, first, in regard of the greatness of his Majesty, there is none like him; Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 4and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing; and Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering; All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than no thing, and vanity: that is, let a man look on the greatness of God, and compare him with all the things that are in the world, and you shall find a great disproportion between them; they are but as the drop of the bucket. A bucket, of it self, holds but little water, but yet that is for some use; but the drops that fall from the bucket, when it cometh out of the Well, they are so small, as we make no account of them; and yet all the world is not so much to the Lord, as these small drops. And if that similitude will not serve, there is another; They are as the dust of the balance: if it were but as the dust of the earth, it were but small, but as for the dust of the balance, it is so small, that it cannot weigh the balance this way, or that way; and yet the whole world is not so much to the Lord, as the dust of the balance.
From the greatnesse of Gods Majesty, and the immensitie of his workes,1 and that is the reason of the words here annexed; there is none like him:2 as in verse 5. of this Chapter you shall see ⟨p. 77⟩it more plainly. So, Among the gods, 3there is none like to thee, O Lord, neither are there any works like thy works. Where you see that they are both put together; there is none like to him for the greatnesse of his Majestie, nor for the immensity of his workes. More particularly, first, in regard of the greatnesse of his Majestie, there is none like him; Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 4and are counted as the small dust of the ballance: behold, he taketh up the Iles as a very little thing; and Lebanon is not sufficient to burne, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering; All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse than no thing, and vanitie: that is, let a man looke on the greatnesse of God, and compare him with all the things that are in the world, and you shall finde a great disproportion betweene them; they are but as the drop of the bucket. A bucket, of it selfe, holds but little water, but yet that is for some use; but the drops that fall from the bucket, when it commeth out of the Well, they are so small, as wee make no account of them; and yet all the world is not so much to the Lord, as these small drops. And if that similitude will not serve, there is another; They are as the dust of the ballance: if it were but as the dust of the earth, it were but small, but as for the dust of the ballance, it is so small, that it cannot weigh the ballance this way, or that way; and yet the whole world is not so much to the Lord, as the dust of the ballance.
- 1Proved by the greatness of his Majesty and works.Proved by the greatnesse of his Majestie and workes.
- 2Isaiah 46.5.Esay 46.5.
- 3Psal. 86.8.
- 4Isaiah 40.15, 16.Esay 40.15, 16.
