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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

ways and hardened our hearts from thy feare O this is the saddest of all judgments when God does not only punish sin with sin whip one sin with another but punish putrifaction with petrifaction by hardening us in sin steeling the conscience and brassing the countenance not only to continuance in sin but confidence in sinning O a seared conscience is a sealed condemnation 2. What is a Broken Heart then that comes next having done with a hard one When a thing is broken it is broken into some parts greater or lesser more or fewer what then is this Heart broken into to give you all the little parts and Atomes a broken heart is crumbled into were a taske as endless and needless as that Venus in Apuleius laid upon Psyche to number and distinguish a heape of petit graines Therefore I will only give you the prime leading parts the lesser inferiour and more subordinate only as they offer themselves in our way This broken Heart then is broken into pieces 1. Low thoughts of himself 2. High thoughts of God These parts to speake properly though the heart be broken into yet it is not made of for as we say of a line that it is divided into not made of points so this heart though broken into is not made up of these pieces as ingredients they divide not constitute they doe not make it but rather speake it broken for the bloud of Christ alone is the Balme of Gilead or rather the Gilead of Balme that alone makes up a broken heart 1. Then what are these low thoughts of a mans selfe into which it is broken Here I shall b●g the favour of you to helpe me out a little with your fancy the Prophet speaking of God Jer. 31. 18. Saies I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himselfe thus Suppose now you were behind the hanging and heard Job David Peter Paul Augustin Anselm Jerom Bernard or any other humbled Saint of God at his confession what doe you think would such mortified soules such broken hearts breake out into I will head a few short hints of a Broken Hearts low thoughts of himselfe in seven broken sighs thus 1. The Broken heart bleeds out a sigh over his emptiness of all good in St Pauls complaint Rom. 7. 18. I know that in me that is in my flesh dwels no good thing Strangers that are at a distance from me and know me not intus in cute or in cute only my outside only may perhaps cry me up for Piety parts and pains perhaps those that have any Relation or Obligation to me may finde out a prety Inventory of goods in me to praise in their judgment But O the Lord knows and I know my self and so would others too did they know me as well as I doe or should and I thank God would know my self that there is no good in me but that I desire to see and weepe the evill that is in me and that is his 2. Sigh not only that I am empty of all good but full of all evill and here he breaks out into lamentations not only for all the evils that have broke out in him but for the evils that lye hid and dormant in him and may break out his latent as well as his patent evils 1. For the ils that have appeared in him O! saies the Broken heart the Devill could not suggest nor the damned in hell commit worse evils then I have done and here he lanches into that black sea of sin and runs over those three bead-rolls of evils Rom. 1. From verse 29. to the 32. 1 Cor. 6. 9. 10. And that catalogue of the works of the flesh Gal. 5. from verse 19. to the 21. I have sinned so and so and so The Sun in Heaven doth not warm nor the fire in hell doth not burn a more false filthy foule base debauched sinner than I am Gods mercy never saved Gods justice never damned a more unthankfull unfaithfull unfruitfull wretch than wretched I. 2. For his latent evils for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 4. 2. The hidden things of dishonesty or rather the hidden things of shame so the Greek and more properly his secret sins sins that are so hidden from the world that they are almost hidden from himself though he cannot with Caesar call every Souldier that fight 's against his soule in this formidable Army that quarters in his heart by name yet he has discovered a vast Army of corruption in ambush there that makes him cry out upon that discovery with St Paul Rom. 7. 24. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I have a body of sin in me sin in a corporation not only sin in armes but sin in an Army sin in a body sin in a Garrison sin in a strong hold I have all the sins in the world in my base heart Philosophy may flatter me that I have the seeds of all vertves in me but I see that I have the seeds of all sins in me even of that fearfull sin against the holy Ghost And that these sins have not broken out into open defiance against God and man it is no thank to any goodness in me but the goodness of God alone it is nothing but the over-ruling power of Gods grace that has kept me from being outwardly and openly as vilely wicked as the basest the beastlyest of sinners O I am a den of wild beasts a bed of Serpents a cage of uncleane Birds a sinke of sin I am all toade all beast all Divell and if God have caged up these birds charmed these serpents tyed up these wilde beasts that they have not broken out to the loathing of the world I am beholding to the goodness of God not only for that little good I have done but for the great evils I have not done 3. He breaths a sigh not only over his bondage to sin but to the creatures who was ever more insnared with dotage on the creatures than I how am I brought under the power of mean and low things things which God has designed for no higher ends than to be helps and seasonings and sweetenings of my Pilgrimage as meats and drinks relations recreations St Paul would not be so he would not be brought under the power of any 1 Cor. 6. 12. But severall creatures are Princes and Gods over me and many times when I have been convinced of my duty to doe the will of God and have been willing and ready to doe it and even setting upon the work these petty Divinities these creature-deitys have exercised such a rugged Empire over my heart that I durst not obey God because I durst not disobey them nay I have chosen rather to obey them than God O what a slave has my Idolatry to a little painted flesh or shining earth made me It has not only unchristianed me but unmaned me befooled me bebeasted me bedrudged me bedeviled me 4. He sighs out his

5. 1. And as the Spouse there goes on vers 2. Because of the savour of thy good ointments c. therefore do the Virgins love thee Draw me and I will run after thee That ointment that oil of gladness which thou art annointed withall above thy fellows and that which thou dost annoint thy fellows withall that is those that be in fellowship and communion with thee it is that that draws me and I must run after thee Alas I am a dull heavy piece of iron I have no motion of mine own but thou art my loadstone and my loadstar I am but a poor inconsiderable Straw good for nothing but the fire but thou art the lovely Jett that forcest me to leap up to thee as the Apostle sayes The love of 2 Cor. 5. 14. Christ constrains me for of my self I am nothing and good for nothing 4. A broken heart is nothing in respect of his own Comforts and Contentments he can take comfort in nothing till he sees God reach out the mercy to him he dares not be his own Carver to snatch at any thing but waises with patience and satisfaction till his Father give it him so that he may say of all his enjoyments as Jacob said of his Venison but more truely the Lord thy God brought it to Gen. 27. 20. Gen. 2. 22. me he owns no comfort in Wife or Children health or wealth or any of those things that we are apt to call goods and think mercies but as he sees they are from God As Adam took Eve when God brought her to him These are the Children which the Lord hath given thy Servant Gen. 33. O this is the mercy of a mercy the comfort of a comfort the Crowne of a broken heart in his saddest condition this is that which raises refreshes ravishes his soul when he can see God in a mercy this is that Elixar of a broken heart turns all to Gold Psal 37. 16. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked Many wicked as if he had said all the riches of the wealthy wicked ones in the world will not amount to such a Summe nor rise to such an Income of comfort nor swell to so vast a Revenue of contentment as those little pittances that the Father is pleased to give with his own hands to his own Children When God shall convey a blessing to a man through the Covenant of grace when it flowes in to him through Prayers and Promises these are the eldest Sonnes of mercy that are the heires of the Promises Oh there is a hidden Manna in those mercies that are reached out by the hand of Promise reached at by the hand of faith given by the hand of Providence and taken by the hand of Prayer All my springs are in th●e sayes David Psal 87. ult All springs there is their Universality my springs there 's their Propriety in thee there is their Eternity All my springs my springs of Axa my upper springs and my lower springs my springs of grace my springs of Peace here my springs of joy my springs of glory above 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all those living fountains of that great depth of Eternity All my springs are in thee Carnal hearts have their muddy ponds and stinking puddles out of which they think they can fetch waters of comfort but alas when they taste them they prove but waters of Marah bitter waters they come from and flow into the dead Sea there are snares in them there is death in the Pot at best they are but broken Cisterns as God cals Jer. 7. 11. them that will hold no water whereas this broken Jer. 2. 13. Cistern of Gods making a broken heart may freely fill himself with that which alone can fill the fountain of living waters For God as he is the Father of mercies so he is the God of all comforts who only can give comforts as a God that is such 1 Cor 1. 3. comforts as man cannot give and such comforts as man cannot take away All are miserable comforts and comforters as Job saies that are dig'd out of the Job 16. 2. Creature Consolatiunculae Creaturulae as Luther delights to diminutive it A broken heart would taste a great deal of sweetness in that one delicious promise that flows with milk and hony wine and oyle marrow and fatness Esay 58. 11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfie thy soul in drought it is in droughts in the Original in the hottest hardest season and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watred Garden and like a spring of water whose waters faile not Hebr. whose waters lye not or deceive not O all these lower springs are such not filling and yet failing not lasting and yet lying deceiving as well as decaying waters All the life of the toyling worldling in the midst of his pleasing dreams and gay hopes that flatter him with golden Indies as the return of his drudgery is if really and rationally as well as religiously considered but like the sad trade of the poore Israelites in Aegypt to go up and down to seek straw to take a great deal of pains to make up their Bundle and when they have it it is but a bundle and that bundle is but straw and that straw but to make Brick to put an edge upon their affliction and with a great deal of wit and labour to adde new weights to that which is but too heavy without it Methinks the businesse of the world is most meltingly emblemd in that passionate expression of the poor Widow to the Prophet Behold 1 King 17. 12. I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress a little Cake for me and my son that we may eat it and dye take a great deal of pains to take a little pleasure and dye and many times when a man hath made up his bundle and resolves to sit down and warm himself and say Aha as the Prophet Esa 44 16. most rhetorically humors it when a man thinks to enjoy the sweet of his labours to make his gold fusive and malleable run it and beat it out into the varied delights of his ownfancy when he is going to set fire to his bundle and pleases himself with the chearing project of pleasing himself and his friends Acts 28. 3. with its warmth How often doth it prove like St. Pauls bundle of sticks There comes a viper out of it some sting some venome some vexation to poison and sowr his contentments What do they do that burden their bodies their brains their souls too to loade themselves with thick clay as the Prophet Hab. 2. 6. elegantly but like men pressed to death cry more weight still We run here and there like the Prophets vagrant and grudge if we be not satisfied but we are not satisfied for all our grudging We Psalm 59. 15. knock at the doore of every