We look upon a needle, and to our naked eye it is as smooth as glass, but when we put it under the microscope, it appears at once to be as rough as an unmanufactured bar of iron. Actions which apparently and upon the surface, and even so far as human judgment can go, may appear to be either indifferent or even laudable, may seem to God to be so hateful that his anger may burn against them. 12, 13.ĪND what of that? Was it not the most natural thing in all the world to do? Who among us would not have shown the strangers over our house, and our garden, and our library, and have pointed out to them any little treasures and curiosities which we might happen to possess? And what if Hezekiah was somewhat proud of his wealth? Was it not a most natural pride that he who was a monarch of so small a territory should nevertheless be able, by economy and good government, to accumulate so large and varied a treasure? Did it not show that he was prudent and thrifty and might he not commend himself as an example to the Babylonian ambassadors, by showing what these virtues had done for him? Exactly so this is just as man seeth but God seeth after another sort: “Man looketh at the outward appearance, but God looketh at the heart.” Things are not to God as they seem to us. And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.”- 2 Kings xx. “At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. Hezekiah and the Ambassadors, or Vainglory Rebuked

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