IN THE WORLD. 467 grateful admiration, how Scripture has, as it were, let down to the plainest appre- hension the habitual duty of constantly looking to God, by .a familiar allusion taken from domestic life. The fidelity, the diligent attention, the watchful ob- servance of " the eyes of a servant look- ing to the hand of his master, and the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress," is a simple illustration of the Christian's duty, equally intelligible to him who serves, and obligatory on him who is served. To a worldly man, his own sin ap- pears less than it is ; to a good man, greater ; not that he sees through a false medium, or aggravates the truth, or for- gets the Apostle's direction to think soberly ; but while the nominal Christian weighs his offences in the scales of the world, the praying Christian brings his to the balance of the sanctuary. The former judges of sin only as he sees it in others ; and the worst men in the rank above the vulgar, do not always appear x 6
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