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which are the thorns and thistles in your hearts,' as the Prophet David saith, Psalm li. 27. 'Tis a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. The heart must be broken all to pieces, beaten to powder, and must be content to be weaned from all sin, which is the way to be fitted for Jesus Christ.
3. Reason. The soul cannot part with its sins and lusts, which is its god, until he find himself wearied with them, and as gall and wormwood to him; and now this weariedness and burden of sin, must needs cause in the soul a sound sorrow for it, before the soul sees the venomous and ugly nature of it, he is not willing to part with it. Go to pull away the adulterer's whore, and the drunkard's pot, you had as good go to kill them; the reason is because they find sweetness in those base courses, and they are all their delight. But now, when the Lord comes to lay a heavier weight on this man's shoulders than those wicked sins, which were so sweet before, he finds them now as bitter as gall and wormwood; and now he lies down in sorrow, and cries out, "Oh is sin such a deadly killing evil, as it will certainly destroy body and soul in hell. And is there no entering into
