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A93050	A broken heart, or The grand sacrifice. As it was laid out in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Beverley, in the East-riding of the county of Yorke, upon the monthly fast-day in Christmas-weeke, being Decemb. 28. 1642. By John Shawe, pastor of the church at Rotherham in the same county.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3027; Thomason E95_13; ESTC R12113	25,506	45

best and eminentest kind of Sacrifices as Mountaine of God Word of God people of God are the eminentest 3. Such as God will not despise i. e. Highly prize and value as 1 Thess 5. 20. Despise not i. e. Highly prize prophesing There remaines now one maine rubb or materiall Objection in the way to be removed and then I shall post apace and case you with what hast I may Object How can it be said that God required not neither delighted in sacrifices c. Seeing in the book of Leviticus in all ceremoniall Law God commanded them his people in the old Testament dayly offered them and God was well pleased with and accepted of them Heb. 11. 4. Gen. 8. 20. 21. Nay in the next Verse but one of this Psal David promiseth them verse 19. Ans To this our Divines doe as I conceive truly and fully give answer in two points First God never required Sacrifices comparatively i. e. In comparison of a broken heart it s nothing it s not to be compared with it thus Hos 6. 6. Mercy and not Sacrifice i. e. More or rather then Sacrifice thus Ioel 2. 13. Rend your hearts and not your garments i. e. Rather Secondly God never required them abstractly severed from a brokē heart the best Sacrifices without a broken heart God never delighted in thus Isai 1. 11 12 13. Who required your Burnt Offerings Sacrifices Sabbaths new Moones id est God never required or delighted in the best of these joyned with living in their sins vers 16. and severed from a broken heart thus concerning fasting see Isai 58. 4 5. I will slash our Text no longer as some doe their garments till more gay and lesse warme idem vitii habet nimia as nulla divisio this is not a day of curious dividing Texts much lesse Kingdomes but hearts only this sad day and time speaks no curious toyes but plaine dealing expect not much from me beloved that can performe but little at best especially on this suddaine chiefly now being from books and meanes thus torne distracted and divided Observe onely after our plaine homespun Countrey manner two plain truths from these two verses 1. from the 16. vers Obser That all the best outward dutyes and services such as God in his word requires if performed without a broken and contrite heart are no way delightsome but displeasing to God See for this Isai 1. 11 12 13 14. 66. 2 3. The Scripture mentions that the best duties and services done without a broken heart God abhors the dutyes Isa 1. 13. Psal 66. 18. Isa 66. 2 3. as if it had not been done Rom. 2. 28 29. 2 Abhors the person or doer of such services cals them dogs dirt chaffe c. 1 Cor. 10. 5. God was not pleased with such persons and the Pharisee for all his fasting more then ordinary and paying and praying went away not justified Luk. 18. 12 13 14. 3 Will damne them hereafter not withstanding all their duties Matth. 7. 21. Luk. 13. 27. All these can no more hinder the fire of Gods wrath from destroying Kingdomes or persons then a wispe of dry straw can stop fire from entring in at a gap Zach. 7. And not onely Scripture but all reason speakes this truth Reas 1. From the words of text because God never required them Prayer hearing keeping Sabbaths receiving Sacraments God indeed requires and enjoynes so did he Sacrifices but Prayer hearing receiving c. without a broken heart such God never required from the first of Genesis to the last of Revelation no one place ever required such Isai 58. 5. Ier. 7. 22 23. God never spake one word of such Reas 2. Because such empty services Hos 10. 1. as are without this brokennesse are in Scripture called duties and no duties services and no services as is said in the Riddle 2 Kings 17. in vers 33. Text saith those mongrel Samaritans feared God But next verse it saith they feared not God so 1 Sam. 28. 6. It s said that Saul enquired of the Lord yet 1 Chron. 10. 14. Saul enquired not of the Lord so in 1 Sam. 2. 23 24. with 3. 13. Thus ancients expound those places where it s said that the Jewes sought not God fasted not were not circumcised as Jer. 9. 25 26. c. Reas 3. Because such services are but bodily exercise 1 Tim. 4. 8. Now of your dearest Wife Child c. What do you care for the presence of their body though never so beautifull and pleasant formerly if it want a heart a soul no you say with Abraham let me bury my dead out of my sight no more doth God care for carcasses and rotten outsides of duties such Circumcision bodily only is nothing Rom. 2. 25 26. Ier. 9. 25 26. Reas 4. When men forme glorious outward services without broken hearts they pride themselves in and rest on them now resting upon duties upon the opus operatum or worke done is one kind of spiritual Idolatry I know no more reason that a man should worship the Crosse because Christ suffered on it then that a man should worship the Gibbet or Gallowes because his father or brother suffered thereon The Crosse was no piece of our redemption I know no more reason why I should worship an Image though never so gloriously guilded then that I should worship a dog or grasse that is the workmanship of man these of Gods hands and so more eminent and yet I know no more reason to rest on duties then either of the former Is there no kinde of Idolatrie but worshipping stocks and stones yes Ezek. 14. 7. witnesse second Commandement resting on Temple of the Lord Temple of the Lord God can abide nothing worse Ier. 7. 4. then pride in their performances this honey in their Sacrifices when they come with handfulls to God see Mat. 7. 21. 23. Luk. 13. 27 28. Pharisees did performe abundance of duties hecatombes of Sacrifices Matth. 6. 2. 5. 7. some say they prayed eight houres a day and yet except our righteousnesse go beyond theirs no heaven Matt. 5. 20. Reas 5. Breaking of the heart is the end of Sacrifices therefore better then they what are they without it Sacrifices not onely though mainly typed out that true propitiatory Sacrifice The Lambe of God that takes away sins of world but also shadowed out the cutting asunder and breaking of the heart of him that brought it renting of cloths noted renting of heart I see more Corne under my hand then I can thresh out speedily and yet your extraordinary occasions * Mr. Major sent us word that he had especial command about the Souldiers that day this day cause me cut short my distracted thoughts and therefore because I would mainly insist on the second point I must adjourne the other reasons and uses of this point and remaine your debter till another time only mentioning one or two of the heads and that but like Gideons Souldiers lap and

how a sinfull people with whom God is angry and hath a terrible controversie may yet come to be at peace and at one with their God againe how to recover a fainting dying Nation truely it s not Sacrifices Offerings but a broken heart that will helpe us this hath proba●um est upon it de facto is hath done it Ionah 3. 6 7 8. Ierem. 18. 7 8. this hath the promise for it 2 Chro. 7. 14. Ezech. 18. 30 31. Ioel 2. 13 14. 2 Chro. 34. 37. and wonder not for 1. renting of the heart will heale the rents of a Kingdome the more hearts are rended the more will the land and its divisions be glued and cemented Ioel 2. 13 14. Againe where the hearts are rended for sinne there Gods heart is rended with compassion to such sinners Ier. 31. 18 20. Hosea 11. 8. 3. God will break us inwardly or outwardly if not inwardly then looke for outward breakings for broken we must be as Pharaoh when his heart would not break then he was broke in pieces and his Kingdome also but if heartbroke then God hath his end which is not our affliction or destruction but heart-breaking Ezek. 18. 32. Isa 57. 15 c. 4. When hearts are broken then sins are pardoned as here Nathan told David 2 Sam. 12. and when sin is pardoned controversie is removed so as though God may chasten in mercy yet not punish in wrath Isa 1 16 18 19. Quest But what meanes may I use to get my heart broken and contrite for I no way trouble you with the Schoole distinctions of attrite and contrite c. Answ 1. Goe to the great heart-maker heart-mender heart-searcher by fervent prayer as David here did vers 10. God claimes as well heart-mending and curing the spirituall stone as a priviledge to himselfe Ezech. 11. 19. as well as heart searching Ier. 17. 10. not withstanding use the means we must as 2. Use the hammer of the Law of God Ier. 23. 29. when the Philosopher jeered Anthony the hermite for want of bookes he told him Oh Philosopher I have three great bookes Heaven Earth and Sea and in each of these variety of letters Stars in the booke of Heaven Men Beasts and Plants in the second book and Fishes in the third yet none of these so proper to breake the heart as this of the word glasse thy selfe in this Word this Low and it will discover to thee foure things to breake thy heart First the defiled woefull cursed estate by nature at first as David here Psal 51. 5. as Paul tels Rom. 5. 12 15. we hate toades for their cursed natures and so serpents likewise though they hurt us not now this great Sea of our misery runs as divines speake especially into six branches 1. We lost all our grace and spirituall image of God for the naturall image we could not whereby we were holy and rightequs in cur model like God Gen. 3. 7. 6. 5. 2. All mankind every part of man is defiled with Adam was the Root we the Branches he falling we all fell he Fountaine we streames he poysoned we are all infected he Parent we Children he being a traytor all out state is consiscate by all Law of Nature and Nations the rootes and seeds of all manner of corruption and made prone to all that is naught Psal 52. Rom. 3. 1. 29. 3. In that estate our persons are slaves in bondage to Satan and to his master sinne bound already hand and foote and indarknesse onely wont tumbling into the pit Rom. 14. Eplos 2. 3. 2 Tim. 2. 26. and so bound as all world cannot free us but Iesus Chirst Iohn 8. 35. 4. During this estate we are quite disabled from doing God any acceptable service Prov. 15. 8. 9. Iohn 9. 31. c. 5. Have in that estate no true saving but onely a common civill right to the Creatures and outward things Til. 1. 15 Rom 8. 20 21. 6. Lyable to all misery Isa 59. 1 2 3. Ierem. 5. 25. Math. 25 41. Secondly the Law shewes also the actuall sinnes of thy life As 1. thy vile thoughts desires wishes in thy heart whether outwardly expressed or not and these are all known to God now and shall all be revealed hereafter Iob 42. 2. 1 Cor. 4. 5. and these thoughts which are as thicke in a wicked heart as moats in the Sunne are sins in Gods eyes Prov. 24. 9. the thought of fosly is sin yea and great sins Acts 8. 22. pray to God if perhaps the thought of thy heart can be forgiven So 2. Wicked and idle words and of the least of these we must give account to God Matth. 12. 36 37. besides lying swearing cursing c. So 3. Of thy life against the first and second Table towards God and man against every Commondement that as the ancients speake in the Gospel some were dead but not carried forth as Iairus daughter some dead and carrying forth but not buried as Widdows sonne some dead carried forth and buried as Lazarus such are our sinnes some dead thoughts in heart not carried forth some dead words carried forth by the tongue but not buried some dead actions carried forth and buried in the life and thus we sinne by neglecting good committing evill and dead performance of what is good 3 The law shewes us also that we are guilty of the sins of many others some whereof may happily be already in hell for them some perhaps already hardened others in danger it s a fearefull thing to be guilty of one Vriah's blood one Abel's blood cries lowd Oh what is it to be guilty of so much soule blood of wife children servants friends companions kindred neighbours by perswading humoring inticing not hindering where thou hast a calling and power so to do or any other way furthering their sin peccatum qui non prohibet cum possit jubet the antient fathers some of them used to pray Domine remitte nobis aliena nostra peccata our other mens sins the Rabbins have a note from Gen. 4. 10. the voyce of thy Brothers bloods that because the word is bloods in the plurall number in the Hebrew as you see in your Margent therefore it s meant that Caine not only killed Abels person but all those that might have come from Abels loynes had he beene married and from their prosterity successively to the worlds end so thou by thy sins infectest thy children servants they have families and many children and teach theirs accordingly thy sin may spread to many thousand persons ere day of Judgement how is Ieroboam branded with this brand Ieroboam that made Israel sin Oh what is it to destroy a soule 1 Cor. 8. 11. 4 Law shewes our danger in this cursed estate If any of these three things happen to us which I shall now name and any of them or all of them or all of them may any houre wee are utterly undone for ever viz. If 1. In this estate God suffer us