Broken bones occassion pain, strong pain, yea, pain that will make a man or woman groan 'with the groanings of a deadly wounded man' (Ezek 30:24). Soul pain is the sorest pain, in comparison to which the pain of the body is a very tolerable thing (Prov 18:14). Now here is soul pain, here is heart pain; here we are discoursing of a wounded, or a broken spirit; wherefore this is pain to be felt to the sinking of the whole man, neither can any support this but God. Here is death in this pain, death forever, without God's special mercy. This pain will bring the soul to, and this the broken hearted man doth feel. 'The sorrows of death,' says David, 'compassed me and the pain of hell gat hold of me, I found trouble and sorrow.' (Psa 116:3).
Ay, I'll warrant thee poor man thou foundest sorrow and trouble indeed; for the pains of hell and sorrows of death are pains and sorrow the most intolerable. But this the man is acquainted with that has his heart broken. [John Bunyan]
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