...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...

...hearts is 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...very " scriptures to his own destruction." Reckless of consequences, daring the vengeance of Him " to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid," he proceeds in his career of folly, drawing iniquity with cords of vanity, sinning...

...are to dwell in the presence of a great King, whose eyes are purer than to behold iniquity, and yet to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid. How then shall we be able to endure His looks, or dare to appear before Him, unless...