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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49954	Cor humiliatum & contritum a sermon preached at S. Pauls Church London, Nov. 29, 1663 / by Richard Lee ... ; wherein was delivered the profession of his judgement against the Solemn league and covenant, the late King's death, &c.	Lee, Richard, 1611-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing L888; ESTC R19629	22,952	50

Minister as his handling another mans sin Esay 50.4 The Lord hath given me Linguam Eruditorum the tongue of the Learned What to doe To dispute Controversies tie and untie knots in Divinity No but that I should know how to speak a word in season sitibundo lasso to him that is weary Lastly It is grateful to the Almighties 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to God himself though he will not own divisum dispersum Cor a heart and a heart yet he will accept and honour confractum contritum Cor a broken and contrite Spirit For 1. He preferres this alone to all typical ceremonial Sacrifices ver 16. Thou desirest not Sacrifice elsè would I give it thee thou delightest not in burnt-offerings Indeed we find not exprest any Sacrifice for Murther Adultery or any Capital crime therefore God desires them not 1. simply for themselves nor 2. comparativè in comparison of the inward Sacrifice of a contrite Spirit or of the all-sufficient Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross Nihil ergò offeremus saith S. Augustine Sic veniemus ad Deum Unde illum placabimus Shall we then offer nothing to God shall we come empty to him how then shall we appease him Habes in te quod offeras saith the same Author thou hast in thy self the Beast that thou maiest sacrifice and the Incense that thou maiest offer In me sunt Deus vota tua That O God is in me thou callest for from me 2. God preferres this before all Moral and Pharisaical perfections Hence the Publican is preferr'd before the Pharisee Luke 18.10 15. The Pharisee is on his tip-toes stands alone seorsim proud and censorious as that famous and great Divine D. Hammond speaks full of self-righteousness worldly confidence and earthly adherence Lord I thank thee I am not as other men or as this Publican The Publican in the sight and sense of his sin and the unreasonableness of it is ashamed dares not lift up his head but smites upon his breast with God be merciful to me a sinner I tell you saith Christ this man went down to his house justified rather then the other so our Translation but not the other Impropria est comparatio so Master Calvin And the weeping Prodigal before his insulting hypocritical elder brother Luke 15. For though he justles him and thrusts him away will not so much as own him for his brother but speaking to his Father saith this thy son v. 30. who hath devoured thy living with Harlots c. yet the Father tells him for all this he is his brother v. 32. This thy brother was dead and is alive again c. If I be thy Father he is thy Brother It is meet we should make merry and be glad Yea he preferres him for he receives embraces and kisses him clothes and adorns him feeds and feasts him In allusion to this Parable the now Arch-angel of this Church of England His Grace of Canterbury in whom expertus loquor Indulgentia Christi solicitudo Angeli officium Episcopi The Indulgence of Christ the solicitude of an Angel the office of Primitive Evangelical Catholick Episcopacy do verily meet I say he in the Chappel-Royal in a publick Sermon since printed told his Majesty whose mind is alwaies watered with the mild dews of meekness and moderation That it became him as a publick Father to look upon all his Subjects as Sons but upon his Prodigals with more kindness and tenderness when they once come to themselves and acknowledge their Error yea when he sees them returning though afarre off to meet them caress them call for the Ring and the Robe to set some mark of favour upon them more then ordinary that may give assurance to them and to the World that his Promises made and performed were not the effects of Necessity but the fruits of a gracious Princely minde inviolably resolved to out-doe all his Promises and Engagements And I hope saith that grave and religious Prelate the now Lord Bishop of Winchester Dr Mor. in the Epistle to his Coronation-Sermon That your Majesty herein will find a happy success in doing not onely as your Grand-father Henry the fourth of France did but as God himself doeth As Henry the fourth of France did who pardoned those Rebellious Subjects that came in to him how much soever they had before offended and to secure them from their fears and oblige them to his service he honoured some of them with Titles of quality and Places of Trust and I finde not saith that excellent Bishop that any of them ever gave him cause to repent But in doing as God himself doeth who receives the Prodigal yea and makes as much of him as if he had never offended though the elder Brother repine at it methinks this should bespeak those who would be called the sons of these spiritual Fathers to walk in their steps to goe and doe likewise Lastly God owns and honours the broken contrite Spirit for this is the especial grace he promises to his Church by which all other blessings are qualified and sanctified and without which they are nothing worth Ezek. 36.21 God opens the treasures of his mercy at the 24. verse he promiseth to take his People from amongst the Heathen gather them out of all Countries bring them to their own Land c. And yet as if all this were nothing unless a broken and contrite Spirit were vouchsafed them God promiseth at the 26. verse I will take away the heart of stone and I will give a heart of flesh first as an Antidote against sin secondly as a spiritual Potion to kill the worms of temptation which might lead them into Evil and thirdly as a preservative from Lamentation Mourning and future Woe And to speak to our own condition Though God hath brought us out of the dangers of tumultuous clamours and schismatical terrors given us our Religion and Laws our Properties and Immunities and which is the summe of all our King and Church yea though we have had many fair mornings after a black day though our Candle gives a clear light and we sleep in the arms of Peace yet if God break us not for our Sins and from them if he give not a broken contrite Spirit a worm may yet breed out of our Corruption and consume our Gourd But why will not God despise but so accept and honour a broken contrite Spirit that is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Because it is a spiritual Sacrifice First the Sacrifice is the Spirit secondly the Spirit as broken 1. The Sacrifice is the Spirit that is the best of man Prov. 23.26 My son give me thy heart 2. The Spirit as broken and that is the best of the Spirit When we beat hard things into powder we call that powder the flour of it Brokenness and Contrition is * Dr W. flos Cordis the finest of the heart The finer the flour the fitter offering for God A contrite Spirit is fit for