Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

But the things that are secret and hid from the eyes of men, in those he is careless and negligent. But a true child of God, though he is not careless of his conversation, yet he is especially mindful of his affections, and of the secret ⟨p. 226⟩frame of his heart, and of the sins that lye lurking within him.

¹Consider, God doth not esteem of men by what they seem to be to others, but by what they really are. God doth not judge as man judgeth; Men judge of the heart by the actions of the life but God judgeth of the actions by the heart. Men judge of that which is secret and invisible by that which is open and visible, but God judgeth of that which is open and visible, by that which is secret and invisible, Mat. 23.27. Woe unto you Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited Sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all uncleanness. Ver. 28. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within are full of Hypocrisy and Iniquity. Luk. 16▪15. And he said unto them, ye are they which justify your selves before men, but God knoweth your hearts: For that which is highly esteemed amongst men, is abomination in the sight of God. A man might be applauded for that by men, for which he shall be condemned by God. That which might set a m•n high in the estimations of men, might be an abomination unto God.

¹Consider, God doth not esteem of men by what they seem to be to others, but by what they really are. God doth not judge as man judgeth; Men judge of the heart by the actions of the life but God judgeth of the actions by the heart. Men judge of that which is secret and invisible by that which is open and visible, but God judgeth of that which is open and visible, by that which is secret and invisible,