What are people thinking and focused on? What do they love, and what do they hate? Picture their souls laid bare for all to see. When they think they're really hurting someone by speaking badly of them, and when they think they're doing someone a great favor by praising them — how full of themselves they are then!
What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that they apply themselves unto: what do they love, and what do they hate for? Fancy to thyself the estate of their souls openly to be seen. When they think they hurt them shrewdly, whom they speak ill of; and when they think they do them a very good turn, whom they commend and extol: O how full are they then of conceit, and opinion!