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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97070	Cordifragium, or, The sacrifice of a broken heart, open'd, offer'd, own'd, and honour'd. Presented in a sermon at St Pauls London, November 25. 1660. By Francis Walsall D.D. chaplain to his Majesty, and prebendary of St. Peters Westminster.	Walsall, Francis, d. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing W625; Thomason E1081_4; ESTC R203982	34,513	56

CORDIFRAGIVM OR THE SACRIFICE OF A Broken Heart Open'd Offer'd Own'd and Honour'd Presented in a SERMON At St Pauls London November 25. 1660. By Francis Walsall D. D. Chaplain to his Majesty and Prebendary of St. Peters Westminster 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rabbi David Kimchi in Psalm 51. LONDON Printed by Abraham Miller for John Sherley at the Golden Pelican in little Brittain 1660. Browne Maior Martis 27º die Novembris 1660 Annoque Reg. Caroli c. 12o. IT is Ordered that Dr Walsall be from this Court desired to Print his Sermon at St. Pauls on the last Lords day before the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this City Weld To the Right Honourable Sr Richard Browne Knight Baronett Lord Maior of the City of LONDON WILLIAM BOLTON AND William Peake Esquires Sheriffs ALL The Aldermen and all the other Officers of that Great and Noble Body My Lord GOD hath shed such a Glory upon the Successe of your Undertakings for the best of Kings and Causes for like your famous Predecessor Wallworth you did not only stab the Rebels but gave the deaths wound to Rebellion it self as hath ravished me into such a high and passionate veneration of your Lordships Person and Parts as well as Place and Power that I think it little less than a sin to think the least of your desires less than Commands as appears not only in Preaching this Sacrifice but Sacrificing this Preaching by Printing this broken Discourse of a broken heart setting it up as a mark to be shot at with Basilisks eyes and shot through with Adders tongues which are like to do the more sudden execution because it comes so weak into the world being by your Lordships command delivered before its time it is abortive though not still-born and therefore there had bin no great miscarriage if it had dyed as soon as it was born The truth is my Lord it was a due debt to and designed for St. Peters Westminster to which I owe all my little parts and greatest pains so that I did but rob Peter to pay Paul in Preaching it to you as a punishment of which guilt I might justly fear a severer sentence from your Bench then that it should be judged to be pressed to Life But since your Lordship and your Court will have it so be it so let it live let it live by and for and in and with and within and without you and them that is in your lives The life of the Sermon is the Sermon of the life we may Preach well but it is you that must make the good Sermons by making the Sermons good by Preaching the use of our Doctrine in your Lives Then are Sermons delivered to the hearers in a Gospel-way when Rom. 6. 17. the hearers are delivered to or into the Sermons This is the sense of the Apostle Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of Doctrine which was delivered to you it is in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to which ye were delivered The Cornelius Agrippa in Occultâ Philosophiâ Hebrew Doctors say that there is a stone in every man which they call Luz of such an unpenetrable indissoluble hardnesse that it dastards and desies the fury and force of all the Elements as being the Garrison that defends the being of the Individuum its immortall seed and the life out of which man springs up again in his intire nature to the harvest of the Resurrection and the Poet seignes we are made of stones Inde genus durum sumus This is the Constitution of every natural man and those that be still in their puris or rather impuris naturalibus in their natural hardness of heart I know will not like a Discourse of a broken heart because they are not like it for likeness breeds liking and they are not like it at least they are not it that is broken hearted and they that are whole as they need not so they care not for the Physician Whereas to those whose hearts were broken before this Sermon or by it it will be as pleasing a service to their eyes as to their ears and to both as a broken heart is a pleasing sacrifice to God But be it what it will what ever it is it is your Lordships for not only the season but the Subject of this Discourse owes it self wholly to your Lordship For I had pitched upon another Theme that had spoke more home and more handsome to the Times had I not bin taken off by your Lordships Officer intimating your desire not to meddle with Governement c. I must needs say it was a sharp Sarcasme of Luther to his querulous and criticall Melancthon Desinat Philippus esse Rex mundi Let God and those that governe the world under him alone with governing the world under them and it was a great truth though spoken by him that was the eldest Sonne of the Father of lies that deified Swine Mahomet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God is his own Master of the works that is eminently the Reiglement of the world and therefore the same Impostor calls God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominus Mundi and yet the same God hath given a large Commission to his Ambassadors in Cases where the Laws of man are built upon or built up to the Laws of God as all should be But I will not swell an Epistle into a Treatise on that Subject it is enough that your Lordship sees I did comply with your desires in it even though the times were so happily fruitfull as to afford a large crop of excellent matter that would prodesse delectare to entertain you with profit and pleasure in the blessed change of Governement from the worst of Tyrants to the best of Princes And I the rather chose to resolve my self into the obedience of your Lordships dictates because the last piece I Printed was The Bowing the Hearts of Subjects to their Soveraigne and I could hardly do lesse since it did not goe before it than follow it with Breaking the heart in sacrifice to God For that heart is never sweetly bowed in subjection to the King that is not savingly broken in sacrifice to God Your Lordship hath the honour of aeternizing your name by being an Active Instrument in digging the Church and State from under those heaps of Ruine and Rubbish the Ambition and Covetousness of a Popular Tyranny had long buryed them under in the blessed Restoring of his Sacred Majesty to his Suffering Subjects for which Generations to come shall blesse your memory Go on my Lord go on to plant whole Groves of Laurel to crown your Self your City your Posterity with unperishable glories by a Generous and Charitable Reflection upon that Aged heap of Ruines once the wonder of the world and the Crowne of this Queen of Islands I mean the Church of St. Paul in a Canton of which this Sermon was delivered to you When I first came into that eminent Monument of Ancient Piety and