Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
Ver. 27. Because thine heart was tender.] So was King Edward VI when he heard Ridley or Latimer; whose sermons he did usually excerpt and note with his own hand.