"Who can know it?"
"Ye know not what spirit ye are of."
"Examine yourselves."
CAN the heart be known by its possessor? by him whose spiritual being, whose identity and accountability it forms? In other words, can it be known by itself? This is an important question. The interrogative exclamation of the prophet, prefixed to this chapter, seems to assert the negative in the strongest possible manner. The declaration of our Lord to his zealous but vindictive disciples, shows that many do not know their own hearts, nor the motives under which they speak and act. The exhortation of the apostle to a careful examination of self, proceeds upon same presumption: and facts daily show, that a vast majority of mankind know as little of their own heart, as though it belonged not to them; as little as they do of the unexplored and most re