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<p>Note, 1. The hearts of the children of men are subject, not only to God’s view, but to his judgment: As <i>the fining-pot is for silver</i>, both to prove it and to improve it so <i>the Lord tries the hearts</i>; he searches whether they are standard or no, and those that are he refines and makes purer, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.17.10" href="/passage/?search=Jer.17.10">Jer. 17:10</a>. God tries the heart by affliction (<a class="bibleref" title="Ps.66.10,Ps.66.11" href="/passage/?search=Ps.66.10,Ps.66.11"><span class="bibleref" title="Ps.66.10">Ps. 66:10</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Ps.66.11">11</span></a>), and often chooses his people in that furnace (<a class="bibleref" title="Isa.48.10" href="/passage/?search=Isa.48.10">Isa. 48:10</a>) and makes them choice. 2. It is God only that <i>tries the hearts</i>. Men may try their <i>silver</i> and <i>gold</i> with <i>the fining-pot and the furnace</i>, but they have no such way of trying one another’s hearts; God only does that, who is both the searcher and the sovereign of the heart.</p>
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