Proverbs 17:3

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold,.... Refiners of silver have their fining pots, in which they purify the silver from the dross; and goldsmiths have their crucibles to melt and…

Wonderful as is the separation of the pure metal from the dross with which it has mingled, there is something yet more wonderful in the divine discipline which purifies the good that lies hid, like a…

Note, 1. The hearts of the children of men are subject, not only to God's view, but to his judgment: As the fining-pot is for silver, both to prove it and to improve it so the Lord tries the hearts;…

trieth the hearts q.d. man can try the precious metals, but only God the hearts (Jer 17:9-10). The thought that He tries them to refine them, which is suggested here by the parallelism, is elsewhere…