Your Heart is Like an Adamant Stone

There is a hardness which is God's work; which is a Judiciary hardness, a judgement inflicted by God righteously upon men; who when they will harden them∣selves, God consents that they shall bee harden'd, and concurs to their hardening; so He is frequently said in Scripture, to harden Pharaohs heart, and to harden whom He will: but this same Judiciary hardness of heart which is God's work, you must know it is not by Gods infusing obstinacy and and malice into them, that God doth to none: but it stands in these three things, sometimes, By taking away from them, or denying them those means that might make their heart pliable to God: or Secondly, In case they do enjoy the means, yet God withholding his blessing from the means.