rent your heart] Psalms 51:17. Mortifie your affections, and serve God with purenesse of heart, and not with ceremonies.
gracious and mercifull] Exodus 43:6. Psalms 86:5. Jon. 4 2.
repenteth him of the evil] Out of his infinite mercy he changeth, not his counsell or his will, as being sorrie for having done evill, as men do when they repent: but the effects of his rigour into effects of his mercy.