An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Our translators take up this sense of the word as noting the diminishing of a thing in the quantity of it. He maketh small the drops of water, or, he makes the water fall in small drops; whereas if the water were left to it self, it would pour down like a sea, or like a flood to sweep all away. This is the work of God, and though it be a common, yet it is a wonderful work; He maketh small the drops of rain. A drop is a small thing, and therefore the Prophet when he would show what a small thing, or indeed, what a nothing man is, yea, all the nations of the earth are to God, saith (Isa. 40.15.) The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing. The Spirit of God pi•cheth ⟨p. 387⟩upon this comparison, when he would set forth that great distance between God and man. Man is but a drop to God.

Our translators take up this sense of the word as noting the diminishing of a thing in the quantity of it. He maketh small the drops of water, or, he makes the water fall in small drops; whereas if the water were left to it self, it would poure down like a sea, or like a flood to sweep all away. This is the work of God, and though it be a common, yet it is a wonderful work; He maketh small the drops of rain. A drop is a small thing, and therefore the Prophet when he would shew what a small thing, or indeed, what a nothing man is, yea, all the nations of the earth are to God, saith (Isa. 40.15.) The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance. Behold, he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing. The Spirit of God pi•cheth ⟨p. 387⟩upon this comparison, when he would set forth that great distance between God and man. Man is but a drop to God.