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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

to shelter them that I say not my self under all your Patronage The blessing of him that appeared in the Bush go with them and be on you who shall ever have the ferventest prayers heartiest thanks and true affections of him who is At your command in and for the service of my Master Christs JOHN SHAWE Beverley Jan. 5. 1642. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER ESPECIALLY TO THE INHABITANTS WITHIN THE TOWNE and Parish of Rotherham and others to whom the Author hath had particular relation Christian and courteous Reader IF you aske mee why first this Sermon secondly at this time thirdly in such a plaine dresse homely garbe and phrase comes now to stand in white sheetes before the publique view take my answer to each in a word To the first thus When this Sermon was preached in this place where by the providence of God I am cast at present the watery eyes attentive eares and tongues of many most begged this Secondly among other notes whether safe or lost I well know not these on the sudden I thought not unsutable to the present times To the second thus I being now absent from home found some though but little time to write over these my thoughts Againe I thought hereby somewhat to recompence my necessitated absence from mine owne people this way To the third thus I was at the preaching hereof forty miles absent from my bookes and suddenly called to this worke and had time only once to write these notes over and that in the time of no small distractions and was willing to print it as it was preached as neere as conveniently I could else I could not well have called it the same Sermon moreover I thought the plainest phrase without all curious dresse did best become these times and the day and occasion of this Sermon God grant I may do that by printing and you by reading which may keep us both from sinning and further us in the way of heart-breaking If thou either bring a broken heart to the reading of those notes or hereby doest got one their plainenesse will downe the better if neither I much regard not thy censure How-ever if thy palate be too curious I shall commend the perusall of them to others in whom I conceive my self to have some more interest as being my speciall friends at “ As Cutthorp Somersall c. Brampton in Derby-shire at Chimloigh in a As Heanton Newplace Bury Colla●on Rashl●y and M. Ro. Sk. c. Devonshire Alhallowes on the pavement in Yorke Bradfield and b To some who in these times have fled hither for refuge as the Lady M. who hath been already plundered in York of a 〈◊〉 1000. p●unds and ●s yet out above 700 Ald V. and divers others inhabitants also Beverley and principally my tenderly affected stock at Rotherham in Yorkshire let oh let me prevaile with all you to set after heaven with a godly violence Matth. 11. 12. Feare not the present distempers combustions rubs and troubles it is one sign Antichrist is going down he rageth so sore Rev. 12. 12. no violent thing is permanent when one works exceeding hard we say he will get done quickly dolor si gravis brevis it is but nub cula cito transitura Cheare up and courage beloved as David did in the worst times when not onely friends and goods but wives and al gone yet God was not gone 1 Sam. 30. 6. this made him and those blessed worthies to take joyfully the plundering of their goods Heb. 10. 34. heaven will pay for all ere long know that no affliction or crosse comes on us till there be great need of it for us 1 Pet. 1. 6. comes not without an everlasting knowledge and decree of God before time Act. 4. 28. Ephes 1. 5. and is ordered by Gods all-wise disposing providence in time not onely God takes care of things in heaven but on earth Psal 113. 6. not only of men on earth but beasts yea birds yea little birds yea poore sparrowes whereof two are sold for one farthing Matth. 10. 29. and five for two farthings Luk 12. 6. yea these poore birds move not hop not from bough to bough ibid. without Gods providence may takes not care only of mans essentiall or internall parts but of his very haires which are but excrements Matth. 10. 30. if a haire cannot fal from our heads without Gods providence much lesse our heads from our shoulders nor shall any of these crosses last longer then serves for our profit Hebr. 12. 10. My times are in thy hands not in mans or my enemies O Lord said David Psal 31. 15. When the sore is healed the plaster will fall off when the enemies have pushed us nigher heaven God will then knock off the horns Zach. 1. 20 21. burne the rod Isa 10. 5. What can sword or staffe do without an hand to guide it The end and issue will be happie Isa 3. 9. only be we mourners get Christs marke Ezek. 9. 4. He that hath delivered us from the Lion Rom. 8. 28. and the Beare will deliver us from this Philistine Let us pray heare reade c. but let all come from broken hearts lap up all in contrition of spirit T though we have sought long and still things seeme to go worse and worse yet see how Jacob at length not at first prevailed with the Angel Moses on the Mount Exod. 17. the importunate widow with the judge Luk. 18. 5. and 11. 8. After the Luke 11. 8. sharpest storme comes the sweetest sunshine God can make the valley of Achor for a dore of hope Hos 2. 15. Let me beg of every Christian Reader a prayer and a teare I have said let us both practise and God give a blessing Amen and Amen So prayes I. S. Jan. 6. 1642. PSALME 51. ver 16 17. For thou destrest not Sacrifice else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt Offerings 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Wonder not Right worshipfull and beloved * A Christmas as poore people say against a good time that these times by the voyce of the multitude call'd good or the best times but by the practice of the most made the worst times wherein many use Christ worse then hellish Iudas or devilish Pilate they let him live till hee was above thirty three yeares old but many use him like a Babylonish brat dashing out his braines as soone as he is borne wonder not I say that these times too commonly made times of feasting and merriment are now become times of fasting and mourning yea not the sixth or seventh as Zach 7. but the twelvemonth fast our Saviour tels that when he Bridegroom should be takne away then should they fast in those dayes Now when our Bridegroome Christ seemes to remove from the Temple from the Cherub from the thr●shold to the Mountaine Ezek. 9. 10. 11. When our God

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