A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

4. Wheat is commonly weighed, to know the goodness of it; so God weighs Men, he weighs the Actions of Men: Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting: Weighed in a Balance alluding to the weighing of Gold or Goods exactly in Scales. God tries Men and Women, that all may know he will proceed Justly and Righteously with them; he weighs them in the balance of the sanctuary, or tries them by the Touch-stone of his Word, and if found full weight, or pure Gold, then he declares that they are his, and he owns them ⟨p. 38⟩as his People, as his Wheat; but if too light, or not hold weight, but are greatly wanting, there being no worth in them, but are Dross, Chaff, light and empty Persons, unsound and unsanctified ones, then he rejects them as none of his, but are as reprobate Silver, false Coin, People of no value with him.

4. Wheat is commonly weighed, to know the goodness of it; so God weighs Men, he weighs the Actions of Men: Thou art weighed in the ballance, and art found wanting: Weighed in a Ballance alluding to the weighing of Gold or Goods exactly in Scales. God tries Men and Women, that all may know he will proceed Justly and Righteously with them; he weighs them in the ballance of the sanctuary, or trys them by the Touch-stone of his Word, and if found full weight, or pure Gold, then he declares that they are his, and he owns them ⟨p. 38⟩as his People, as his Wheat; but if too light, or not hold weight, but are greatly wanting, there being no worth in them, but are Dross, Chaff, light and empty Persons, unsound and unsanctified ones, then he rejects them as none of his, but are as reprobate Silver, false Coin, People of no value with him.

As he weighs Men, so he weighs their Works, their Graces, their Gifts, their Duties, to see whether they hold weight, whether true and righteous or not; whether the Grace be true Grace, special Grace, not common Grace, and their Gifts not Counterfeit Gifts, or mere Natural Gifts, or only humane and acquired Gifts: Some boast of false Gifts, which as Solomon tells us, is like Clouds and Wind without rain: What a stir doth a vain Person make of a strong Memory, crying it up as if it was a Spiritual Gift, and as if none were true Ministers but such who have a great Memory, and can deliver all they have got by their Study, by the strength of their Memory; alas, all men of any sense know, that is but a Natural Gift, which some wicked men have as well as some good men; but let him know, God knows what mens Hearts are, what their Ends