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…

This latter part of this Text, shows us evidently, that the things of God are Disrelished by some. They call his sweet things, bitter; and the Devils bitter things, sweet; and all this is for want of a broken Heart. A broken Heart, relishes otherwise than an whole, or unbroken one doth.

This latter part of this Text, shews us evidently, that the things of God are Disrelished by some. They call his sweet things, bitter; and the Devils bitter things, sweet; and all this is for want of a broken Heart. A broken Heart, relishes otherwise than an whole, or unbroken one doth.

A man that has no Pain, or ⟨p. 142⟩Bodily Distress, cannot find, or feel Virtue or good, in the most Sovereign Plaster, were it applied to Arm or Leg; no, he rather says, Away with these stinking, daubing things. O! But lay the same Plasters where there is need, and the Patient will Relish, and Taste, and Savour the goodness of them; yea, will prize and commend them to others.

A man that has no Pain, or ⟨p. 142⟩Bodily Distress, cannot find, or feel Vertue or good, in the most Sovereign Plaister, were it applied to Arm or Leg; no, he rather says, Away with these stinking, daubing things. O! But lay the same Plaisters where there is need, and the Patient will Relish, and Taste, and Savour the goodness of them; yea, will prize and commend them to others.

Thus it is in Spirituals. The World, they know not what the Anguish or Pain of a broken Heart means; They say, Who will show us any good that is better than we find in our Sports, Pleasures, Estates and Preferments? There be many, says the Psalmist, speak after this sort: But what says the distressed man? Why, Lord, lift thou up the Light of thy Countenance upon us. And then adds, Thou hast put Gladness in our Heart; namely,