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…

I answer, avoiding Secret Things, which only belongs to God, there is a Necessity of breaking the Heart, in Order to Salvation; because a Man will not sincerely comply with the means conducing thereunto, until his Heart is broken. For,

First, Man, take him as he comes into the World, as to Spirituals, as to Evangelical Things, in which mainly lies Man's Eternal Felicity, and there he is as one Dead, and so Stupefied, and wholly in himself, as unconcerned with it: Nor can my Call nor Admonition, that has not a Heart-breaking-Power attending of it, bring him to a due Consideration ⟨p. 100⟩of his present State, and so unto an effectual Desire to be Saved.

First, Man, take him as he comes into the World, as to Spirituals, as to Evangelical Things, in which mainly lies Man's Eternal Felicity, and there he is as one Dead, and so Stupified, and wholly in himself, as unconcerned with it: Nor can my Call nor Admonition, that has not a Heart-breaking-Power attending of it, bring him to a due Consideration ⟨p. 100⟩of his present State, and so unto an effectual Desire to be Saved.

Many ways God has Manifested this.