The Gospel According to Ezekiel

"When guilt is pardoned, and the corrupt nature sanctified, then we are cleansed from our
filthiness, and there is no other way of being saved from it. This God promises his people here, in
order to his being sanctified in them. We cannot sanctify God's name unless he sanctify our hearts,
nor live to his glory, but by his grace. 2. That God would give them a new heart, a disposition of mind
excellent in itself and vastly different from what it was before. God will work an inward change in order
to a universal change…. 3. That, instead of a heart of stone, insensible and inflexible, unapt to receive
any divine impressions and to return any devout affections, God would give a heart of flesh, a soft and
tender heart, that has spiritual senses exercised, conscious to itself of spiritual pains and pleasures,
and complying in everything with the will of God…. 4. That since, besides our inclination to sin, we
complain of an inability to do our duty, God will cause them to walk in his statutes, will not only show
them the way of his statutes before them, but incline them to walk in it, and thoroughly furnish them
with wisdom and will, and active powers, for every good work. In order to this he will put his Spirit
within them, as a teacher, guide, and sanctifier." – Matthew Henry