When the LORD has taken a poor sinner in hand He will never leave him but will surely purge away his dross and tin. He will slay his idols and tear him from those things he so much loves. He will not be aware how many idols he has until God shows him in a measure the deceitfulness of his heart. The more God's children are taught Spiritually of Christ, the greater fools do they become in their own eyes and the more they know of their own wicked and vile state by nature, the more are they astonished that God should show Mercy to such poor worms of the earth.