4 Chain of Principles. 449 baked in the brick-kill no fire will Exerc. 3, melt it anwhole fea will not moiften it afterwards. So it fares with fundry men formerly tender-hearted when once hardened by converting in the world and baked, as it were, in the kill of cuftome. That which I in- tend is Spiritual tendernefs afcribed to loJiah Becaufe thine heart wau. tender, and thou did/I humble thy ff before God : Chr° 3417° and didfI rend thy clothes , and weep before me 1 have even heard thee alto faith the Lord God. As mettals are melted with the fire before they be cal} in a new mold fomull every heart be melted and foftened , before it come to be moulded anew. The new creature is alwaies a tame and tender creature. This is that temper which hardnefs of heart is oppofite to, and therefore fin- full. III.. From the attendants tbereofö Divers have been already mentioned. I (hall inf}ance in fòme fewmore. He Prov.2.8. :4; that hardenetb his heart 'ball fall into ni f Io1'. M m ru chief
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