Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:26

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh .

A renewed frame of Soul, a disposition, and mind changed, from sinful to holy, from evil to good, from carnal to spiritual. See chap. 11.19. let. g. A heart in which the law of God is written as Ier. 31, 33. It is a sanctified heart, in which the Almighty Grace of God is victorious, and turns it from sin to God.

God takes it to himself, as indeed it is his onely work, vide chap. 11.19.

This is exegetical, and tells us what the new heart is, 'tis a new holy frame in the spirit of man, which is put in him, not found in him, given to him, not wrought by his own power.

Stubborn, senseless, untractable heart, that receives no kindly impressions from Word, Providences, or the Spirit of God in its ordinary operations, and influences, that hardens it self in a day of Provocation, that is hardned by the deceitfulness of Sin; this evil heart shall be taken away, and God will do, who onely can do it.

Out of your flesh, put for the man.

That is a heart different from the stony hard heart, quite of other temper and frame, hearkning to Gods Law, trembling at his Threats, by gentlest Providences moulded to a compliance with his will; to forbear, do, be or suffer what God will, receiving the impress of God, as softned wax receiveth the impress of the Seal.