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death_n	blood_n	eat_v	lord_n	4,142	5	4.5307	4	false

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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

Creature but one sayes 't is not in me and the other say it is not in me there is nothing within to entertain us and bid us welcome Job 28. 14. Riches Relations Learning Liberty have nothing in them any further than we can see God in them indeed to see God in any thing though below staires is a beatifical vision and makes even a Hell a Heaven which makes me often think that speech of Luther not so wilde as some would have it Mallem esse in Inferno cum Christo quàm in caelis sine Christo I had rather be in Hell with Christ than in Heaven without him it is the King that makes the Court. This is Sugar to the most bitter Cup of Affliction A man may make a meal of sowr herbs with contentment when he sees God in it as a Passeover when the lintels and doore-posts Exod 12. 7. are sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb when every bit he eat sis dipped in the blood of Jesus Christ It is a rare Cordiall to a fainting spirit when he can see God in his distresses though but as the Sun in April through a showr of teares Nay St Stephen had joy in his death when he saw God and Christ at Acts 7. 55 56. 58. his right hand though through a showr of stones There is more in that Text of David then is ordinarily discovered Psal 4. 7. Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon me Thou hast put gladness in my hear● more then in the time that their corn and wine encreased that is not only more then these poor empty creatures of corn and wine can give or more then their corn and wine that is more then they can give them whose they are though certainly they are the most refreshing creatures and they have the highest gust of their refreshments whose they are that are their proprieters not only more then corn and wine and their corn and wine but more then in the time of their corn and wine that is the Harvest and the Vintage the merriest seasons of all the year Thus David preferres his joy he had in God as he did Jerusalem Psal 137. 6. Above my chief joy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Above the head of my joy This sight of God in any condition is the top and pinacle of all joy for this supplyes what a man has not and sweetens what he has This was that which sweetned Gen. 28. 13. Jacobs dream and softned his hard pillow that besides the Angels he saw ascending and descending upon his ladder the Lord God stood above Thus have I gathered up the fragments of the first piece the heart is broken into in shewing you all those low thoughts it has of it self It is now high time to come to the 2. His high thoughts of God This piece of a broken heart is so great that it may be broken into many more but I will only name five and I will little more then only name them 1. Submission to the will of God 2. Sorrow for sinning against the will of God 3. Shame as the proper issue of that sorrow 4. Fear that he may sin against him again 5. Prayer that he may not 1. Submission to the will of God The broken heart lyes at the foot of Gods will to do to be any thing nothing A broken heart is a heart after Gods heart that is is ready to fullfill all Gods will as God characters his servant David Act. 13. 22. A man after mine own heart that shall fullfill all my will it is wills in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all my wills A broken heart is a heart broken to as well as by Gods hands to do what he will to suffer what he will Like his great pattern and principle of obedience Jesus Christ he first sacrifices his will and then all he has and is to the will of God not as I will but as thou wilt He cryes The will of the Lord be done though I be undone 1. He does what God will have him do though he dye for it It is not necessary that I should live sayes he but it is necessary that God should be obeyed and therefore he willingly takes the yoke of Christ upon him Thy will is my sanctification sayes the broken heart and that is it I would will too that is it I would be at rather then my life a life of grace rather then a life of nature I would fain be holy and live up to the standard of thy Word I see a great deal of beauty in holiness and though there be a great deal of weakness in me as to the attaining of it yet there is a great deal of willingness in me as to the embracing it Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power Psal 110. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Populus voluntatum sayes Vatablus but why not Voluntates they shall be all wills for all thou wilt as Psal 109. 4. But I give my self unto prayer it is Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But I am prayer I am all prayer for them I only or alwayes pray for them that only or alwayes prey upon me So for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thy people are all wills that is all resolved into thy will or resolved into all thy wills they are delivered up to the will of God So Rom. 6. 17. Ye have received from the heart the broken heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you or rather to which ye were delivered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their hard hearts were melted into the will of God for this is in the day of thy power that is when thou hast powerfully broken their hearts This posture you see St Paul in Act. 9. 6 When the Lord had unhorsed him and he lay upon the earth trembling astonished and blind he cryes Acts 9. 6. out Lord what wilt thou have me to do As David sayes Adhaeret pavimento anima mea Psal 119. So his soul cleaved to the dust as well as his body he lay groveling in the dust of his own broken heart as well as that of the earth his heart was utterly broken from his own will wholly into the will of God he lyes at the foot of Gods will for orders and when he gives the word he obeys A broken heart is like the Centurions servant when his Master sayes goe he goes and come he comes do this and he does it This is exampled in Abraham if God call him out of his native Countrey and his Fathers house nay out of his own Fathership and bid him sacrifice the name and nature of a Father in sacrificing his son his only son he disputes not but stat pro ratione voluntas His Masters will is his law and therefore it is said Esa 41. 2. He raised up the righteous man from the East called him to his foot That which is Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 righteousness we