Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the
ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own
eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn
himself, or which should make his projects prove otherwise than well;
and therefore he is confident of success, and that the answer of the
tongue shall be according to the expectations of the heart; but there
is a great deal of pollution cleaving to our ways, which we are not
aware of, or do not think so ill of as we ought. 2. The judgment of God
concerning us, we are sure, is according to truth: He weighs the
spirits in a just and unerring balance, knows what is in us, and passes
a judgment upon us accordingly, writing Tekel upon that which passed
our scale with approbation--weighed in the balance and found wanting;
and by his judgment we must stand or fall. He not only sees men's ways
but tries their spirits, and we are as our spirits are.