The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart showing the nature, signs…The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart shewing the nature, signs…

First, I say, Anguish will make thee cry. Trouble and Anguish, said David, have taken hold upon me, Psal. 119. 143. Anguish you know, doth naturally provoke to crying; now as a broken Bone has anguish, a broken Heart has anguish: Hence the Pains of one that has a Broken Heart, are compared to the Pangs of a Woman in Travel, John 16 20, 21, 22.

1. Anguish will make one cry alone, cry to ones self; and this is called a bemoaning of of ones self. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, said God, Jer. 31. 18.

1. Anguish will make one cry alone, cry to ones self; and this is called a bemoaning of of ones self. I have surely hear'd Ephraim bemoaning himself, said God, Jer. 31. 18.

That is, being at present under the breaking chastising Hand of God: Thou hast Chastised me, saith he, and I was Chastised, as a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoke: This is his meaning also, who said, I ⟨p. 87⟩mourn in my Complaint, and make a noise; and why? Why, My Heart is Pained within me, Psal. 53. 2, 3, 4.

That is, being at present under the breaking chastizing Hand of God: Thou hast Chastised me, saith he, and I was Chastised, as a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoak: This is his meaning also, who said, I