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…

Sixthly, A Tender Heart will deny it self, and that in lawful things, and will forbear even that which may be done, for some Jew, or Gentile, or the ⟨p. 174⟩Church of God, or any member of it should be offended, or made weak thereby: whereas the Christian that is not tender, that has lost his tenderness, is so far off of denying himself in lawful things, that he will even adventure to meddle in things utterly forbidden, whoever is offended, grieved, or made weak thereby: For an instance for this, we need go no further then to the man in the Text, who while he was Tender, trembled at little things, but when his heart was hardened, he could take Bathsheba, to satisfy his Lust, and kill her husband to cover his Wickedness.

Sixthly, A Tender Heart will deny it self, and that in lawful things, and will forhear even that which may be done, for some Jew, or Gentile, or the ⟨p. 174⟩Church of God, or any member of it should be offended, or made weak thereby: whereas the Christian that is not tender, that has lost his tenderness, is so far off of denying himself in lawful things, that he will even adventure to meddle in things utterly forbidden, whoever is offended, grieved, or made weak thereby: For an instance for this, we need go no further then to the man in the Text, who while he was Tender, trembled at little things, but when his heart was hardened, he could take Bethsheba, to satisfie his Lust, and kill her husband to cover his Wickedness.

Seventhly, A Tender Heart, I mean the heart kept tender, preserves from many a blow, lash, and fatherly chastisement; because it shuns the causes, which is sin, of the scourging hand of God. ⟨p. 175⟩With the upright thou wilt show thy self upright, but with the froward thou wilt show thy self unsavoury, 2 Sam. 22. 27