448 AChain ofPrinciples. . ph.6. g. 4. II. From the oppofites of hard=heartednefs ; the chief whereof is fpiritual Evangelical tendernefs promifed in the covenant of grace where it is Paid Y will give them one xek.Trt9. heart, and l will put a napfirit within you : and will take the flony heart out of their fle`h, and will give them an heart of fiefh : that is a foft and tender heart. I do not mean that natural tendernefs, caufed by conflitution or education, rmoii t n;o,,, of both which it is true, that it foftens n°gnat OP- the manners and keeps them from y©ç. fiercenefs afcribed to (Rehoboam of chvr.T_7. whom it was laid He was young and tender hearted and couldnot with/land the children of elial. Such men are fitly compared to ripe plumbs and apri- cocks which however loft and imooth on the out-fide yet have an hard ítone within : like a brick, at fiat foft when the clay is fafhioned,. and continues fo till the Sun have hardened it yea, by pouring on of water fofcened again ; but if once baked
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