...men approve, (who know us not, because they know not our hearts,) if we fall short of His approval, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid ? Brethren ! I have not this day been " preaching the Gospel" to you; but endeavouring...

...by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. 0 GOD, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secret thing can be hid ; wilt thou cleanse our hearts from all unrighteousness, purify our desires, and assist...

...known to 4 John vi. 37. 5 1 John iii. 2. him; since, as well for evil as for good, he is the " God to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid :" and this is indeed a blessed truth for his own people, that all their desires...

...dealing with him, and drew such a picture of the depravity of man's nature, the awful purity of Him to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, and the tremendous doom of those who are left unchastised, or visited with unsanctified...

...such " vain oblations." Those who worship only in this way are thus described by Jehovah himself, " to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid," " This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoured] me with their...

...disgustingly in every distinct individual, is yet in ail the unconverted children of Adam, before that God, "to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom BO secrets are hid," equally deserving of everlasting death, or eternal banishment from the divine...

...as shall stand the fiery ordeal to which they shall be then subjected by their all-seeing Judge, " to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid." Thus is it, my brethren, a fearful responsibility we take on ourselves, when we...

...it teach us the duty of regulating our faith and our conduct with a view to the approbation of Him, "to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid:" and ever to bear in mind, as a support and a safe-guard under our manifold weaknesses...

...man must be supposed to be of very little consequence. To approve himself to that adorable Being, ' to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid,' and before whom he is shortly to appear; and to promote, so far as his means of...

...follows, therefore, that we ought to abstain from judging, lest we be found to usurp the office of Him, to whom " all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid.''3 3. Consider, lastly, that in proportion as you really know the things which...