Eeligious Converfation recommended. . 9 up my jewels, and I will fare them as SERM. a man f areth his own fon who ferveth XV. him. It is thus that the fupreme, fcient, infinitely wife and juft Ruler of the world is reprefented as infpecting nar- rowly into the hearts and actions of men, as applying his ear attentively to receive in- formation, in order to his judicial proceeding with the ftricteft equity. Which figurative manner of fpeaking is not intended to fignify that he hath any need of external evidence or means of finding out the truth ; for all things are naked and open before him, neither is there any creature that is not manifefl in his fight; at one direct view he beholds the molt remote and the molt fecret things, the hearts of men, and their hidden receffes, as clearly as their public a ±ions : but the defign of the facred writers in fuch forms of fpeech is to affert God's perfect knowlege of all the ways and thoughts of men ; by him actions are weighed, and he pondereth the heart; a more perfect knowlege than men can pof fibly have by the ftri&eft inquiry they can make; and that true, inward goodnefs, the hidden man of the heart, a meek and quiet and pious fpirit, though proceeding no far - ther
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