upon his mercyes, when you see, how he raiseth men out of the dust &c. All this shewes the greatnesse of God. Fourthly, It is set out comparatively. To compare him, with the greatest of men,By comparing him with the greatest things. Kings, what are they unto him, who is the King of Kings? Nay, take Nations which are greater, nay take all Nations, you shall see what they are to him. Isa. 40.15. Behold the Nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance: Behold he taketh up the Iles as a very little thing, & Lebanon is not sufficient to burn for a burnt offering. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse then nothing and vanity. The very scope of this place is, to shw the greatnesse of God by comparison. A bucket of water is but a small thing, but the dropps that fall from it, they are of no use: Againe, the dust of the earth is but a small thing, but the dust of the scales, that will not so much as turne them, that must needes be exceeding little: but all the world is not so much to him, as a litle dust. An∣other comparison you shall finde in Isa 55. My thoughts are above your thoughts, as the heaven is a∣bove the earth. Beyond al things are the thoughts of man; for though Nations bee great, yet a mans thoughts goe beyond them: notwithstan∣ding the Lord is as much beyond the scant∣ling, and modell that we draw of him in our thoughts, as the heavens are above the earth: When you have thought upon mee as much as you can thinke; when you have thought 0