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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08804	The broken heart: or, Davids penance fully exprest in holy meditations upon the 51 Psalme, by that late reverend pastor Sam. Page, Doctour in Divinity, and vicar of Deptford Strond, in the countie of Kent. Published since his death, by Nathanael Snape of Grayes Inne, Esquire.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.; Snape, Nathaniel.	1637 (1637)	STC 19089; ESTC S113764	199,757	290

shall make way into the favour of God Gods people lost their costs and labour in their Sacrifices and solemne worship of God and nausâ—ated the soule of God with them because of their iniquities These returne our prayers empty handed from God yea these do turn our prayers into sin When the Prodigall sonne returneth penitent to his father all is for given and forgotten and his father now rejoyceth more in him then he did before He was al rags he needed not to aske raiment his father called for it stolam primaÌ„ the best robe he came home hungry hee demaÌ„ded not food his ambition was but bread the fat Calf was killed for him he was received with musique and dancing The bent of the Parable and the other two of the lost sheep and the lost groat is to shew that repentance putteth us into a better state of favour then we had before For where sinne aboundeth grace doth superabound I may give two reasons of it I Here God taketh occasion to open the bowels of his tender compassion and to declare his mercy which is over all his works 2 True Repentance is an act of so much anguish and bitternesse it is for the time a frying in the flames of hell that no man would have the heart to undergoe the torments of it if he did not by the cleere eye of faith looke beyond it to the joy and comfort of Gods recovered favour The point teacheth its own use for if we would have any audience with God for our selves or our brethren we must first present God with a Sacrifice of contrite and broken hearts and then God will meet us upon our way to him and prevent us with his free favours Surely goodnesse and mercie shall follow us all the dayes of our life There is no service to the service of the King The Lord is our King of old let it be our glory and our fence that we are the servants of the living God All Gods enemies will be daunted at the sight of us and the feare of us will be upon all the Nations of the World And as all Nations feared the face of Israel because God had led them through the Red Sea and given them victory all the way c. So will they say Let us flie from the face of this people Is not this the Nation that under the Rule of a Virgin Queen expelled superstitious Religion out of their Land That to a people that sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death a great light shined even the cleer light of the holy Gospel Is not this the state against which so many damnable treasons were plotted under a Womans government and all were by the singular favour of God happily but wondrously defeated Is not this the Nation for whom God himselfe fought against Sisera and Iabin the winds and the Seas fought against the supposed invincible Armado of Spain nothing more verifying the prediction Octogâ—simus octavus mirabilis annus 1558 a yeer which wonder at we might Is not this the Nation whom God preserved from the powder treason the bloudiest the closest stratageme that ever was contrived and ripened even to the season of dismall execution All these favours wee have had our many crying sins have lost us this glory this defence our repentance may yet recover our God to us and restore us to his favour and replant us in our former strength Nothing but repentance can call us again the servants of the living God and that were our safety There is a certaine Majesty and power in the faces of Gods servants to daunt the courage of Gods enemies when God pleaseth to have it so It was a bold resolution of Iaddus but suggested by Almighty God in a dreame When Alexander set on toward Ierusalem to conquer it and all his people followed him with expectation of all that force and fury could worke against their City Iaddus the high Priest and all the Priests of the Lord came forth to meete him in their Sacerdotall Vestments followed by the people in white garments The chiefe Priest carrying the name of God on his Mitre Alexander durst not lift up his hand against that name hee fell downe and worshipped it The reverence of the servants of the living God awed him and softened him to such good respect as caused all hostilitie to cease and produced gracious favours from him For God can make them that leaâ— his children captive to pittie them This state we may gain by Repentance and being the knowne servants of the living God the feare of us will be upon all the Nations of the earth This shall be a greater safety to us then our Armes and Fortifications then our Walls of stone ashoare of wood at Sea It is the voice of joy in the tabernacles of the righteous The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Iacob is our refuge We have a sure word for it For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his eares are open to their prayers but the face of God is against them that do evill And who is he that will harme you if ye be followers of that that is good 2 Observe his prayer here is for the Church for wee must enquire why he addresseth his prayer next after his Repentance for the state of the Church I conceive the reason this David being an eminent person a mighty King and an holy Prophet had by his great sinne done wrong to the state of the Church of God and therefore after his peace made with God by repentance he pleadeth the cause of the Church with God by petition Sin generally is of a contagious nature the first sin brought a curse upon the whole earth And Hagge hath told us that the sinne of the Iewes in their neglect of building Gods House did bring upon their land barrennesse unfruitfulnesse upon their trees their wages did not prosper for the works of their hands nothing thrived with them But especially the wickednesse of their Kings did ever bring great evill upon the Church and Common-wealth Rehoboams sin rent the Kingdome and lost the Church ten Tribes at once and divided the State into two Kingdomes The Kings of Israel and of Iudah were the ruine of their Kingdomes And Davids sin crimsoned his house with bloud The pollution of Thamar the death of Amnon the Rebellion of Absolon as these were the great sorrows of David s they were the disquiet and vexation of the whole State and these were the effects and fruits of Davids sinne Therefore David doth well to repaire the ruines of Sion by his prayers to solicite the peace of the Church which his sin had so much endangered In the later end of his Reigne hee displeased God in the numbring of his people and the whole Kingdome suffered for it God sent â— pestilence amongst the people which in three dayes consumed of that great number threescore and ten thousand plectuntur

it self will prove the burthen of the conscience the feare of a deadly blow the trembling of our hearts the shame of our faces the disquieting of the whole man This sheweth us what a body of sinne we beare about us for as the proverbe is Wickednesse proceedeth from the wicked this calleth the heart uncleane and the conscience defiled Cease therefore to do evill and learne to do well This is the way of life to escape the paths of death Evils are a shamed of themselves and Sathan dare not be so open in his temptations as to tender them to us bare-faced but he putteth either some matter of vertue upon them to hide them out of sight or some pretence of great pleasure or profit to sweeten them that they may go down with us without distaste Let us but take so much leasure as to take off this disguise and behold evill in it own proper colours and we shall see such a loathed deformitie we shall feele such an abhorred complection of stench and commistion of filthinesse as will discourage us from it We shall discerne danger in the touch of it and death in the committing of it Libera nos Ã malo Deliver us from evill 4 The particularity This sinne Here Davids repentance doth come home to his present disease this great exemplarie teeming and pregnant this parturient sinne which brought forth so many so horrible sinnes Lust when it conceiveth bringeth forth sinne Lust was Davids sinne see the present issue and encrease of it it broughtforth adultery Two bodies defiled Matrimony Gods ordinance polluted Gods good creatures abused to drunkennesse Joab corrupted Uriah murthered This sinne cherished veiled with a marriage and for ten moneths unrepented I have done this evill all this beside all the other sinnes of my life I have added this also No doubt but he did consider this sinne also in the punishment of it 1 With vexation in his conscience 2 With shame in the world 3 With the griefe of the Church 4 With the joy of Gods enemies 5 With the anger of God 6 With the chiding of Nathan 7 With the death of the childe 8 With a continuall incumbent punishment in his own house Non discedet gladius c. The sword shall not depart c. Before he craved mercy against his transgressions and iniquitie and sinnes Now he comes to this eminent and notorious sinne I have done evill this evill Which teacheth us when we come to repaire the decayes of our spirituall man by repentance to have speciall care of those particular sinnes which have especially corrupted us and provoked God against us A generall peccavi iniquÃ¨ egi I have sinned and done wickedly will not serve without we come to this evill As the people of Israel did when the Lord affrighted them with thunder and raine in their wheat-harvest they confessed and said to Samuel Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we dye not for we have added unto all our sinnes this evill in asking us a King We say of some man he is a very true hearted honest man but he will sometimes over-drink or he will sometimes sweare in his passion or he will over-shoot himself in his anger or he is somewhat covetous or prodigall or wanton c. Let every man so account with God for his sinnes as to confesse with griefe shame and fear this evill to which either some corruption of nature or some continuance of custome or some temptation of pleasure profit or some present occasion for want of grace by some sudden surprize hath prevailed with him to give him a fall Opportunitie doth often tempt and prevaile against a great measure of knowledge and grace and God sometimes leaveth us to our selves to try our strength how we can resist Sathan If we prove too weake for him and that he do over-beare us we have no remedie but this particular repentance All sinnes foule us therefore David prayeth to be washed some sinnes steine us and an ordinarie washing will not cleare us therefore he prayeth Wash me throughly and make me cleane It is our wisedome to discerne this difference of our sinnes and consider which be dyed in crimsin which in scarlet and to bring them to the washing especially So shall we be purged from our great offence Here is Noahs drunkennesse and Lots drunkennesse and incest Pauls persecution of the Church Peters denyall of his Master In multis offendimus omnes in many things we sinne all But if we survey our consciences carefully and inquisitively we shall finde this evill some especiall sinne that we have either much accustomed our selves to or that we have once committed overtaken with some sudden strong temptation which we may call this evill How evill this evill tasted in the end we see his appetite desired it before as a chiefe pleasure and now it is become his griefe and greatest paine He was very warie after of falling into this sinne Yet another temptation put him into new sinne of numbring his people when he had done this evill also he fell to this remedy of particular repentance And David said unto God I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing but now I beseech thee do away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly He that hath many of these grosse and high-growne sinnes blasphemies prophanations of the Lords-day adulterie drunkennesse c. to account for is in heavy case If one at once smart so shâ—rply and weigh so heavily what will many do Aperiantur ut operiantur sanemus ut sanemus Let them be shewn that they may becovered let us reveal them that we may heal them 5 The daring of this sinne In thy sight He had conveied this sinne as closely and warily as he could God took notice of that also Thou diddest it secretly Bathsheba was secretly sent for and entised and defiled Vriah dyed in a just warre But now David seeeth that all this was done in the sight of God he seeth what the hand doth and what heart setteth it awork David could not be ignorant of this but we willingly embrace temptations to evill which we can keep out of the worlds eye The searching eye of God cannot be benighted it is over all the world and discerneth both good and evill Will any man steale whilest the owner looketh on Dare any man trespasse a King when his eye is upon him A king sitting on the throne of judgement driveth away all evill with his eye He was a foole that said in his heart Non est Deus there is no God he saith so that denyeth him a sight of all things There is no power like the power of God there is no strength to execute power like the strength of God There is no fire so hot as the fire of his furie There is no threatning so surely accomplished as his menaces Yet when we are afraid of every eye of man in our secret sinnes we dare

griefe so inward as in anima in the soule yet so sensible as nos vidimus we saw it How were the rivers of their bloud which runne in the channels of their veines to water the earth of which they are made frozen and congealed that they had neither mercy to pitty their fathers sonne nor so much tendernesse as to looke another way nos vidimus we saw Seeing malice and envy had taken away their hearts why had it left the eyes open to let in so unpleasing a sight Thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother Thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity oculi augâ—â—â— dolorâ—m commonly that the eye sees not the heart grieves not here the mercies of the brethren were all turned eruell 4 I but perchance Ioseph might thanke his owne stout heart for their cruell usage of him for many times our own untemperate carriage in afflictions brings fewell to the fire that scorcheth us and blowes more breath into the tempest of winde that bestormeth us But Iosephs brethren have not this excuse they confesse their brother resisted them not but with humble entreaties they confesse he besought us The petition of a soule in anguish faire-spoken and humble hath pierced hard hearts and relented cruell intentions of evill but it wrought not here for 5 They confesse we would not heare They did heare the request of their brethren but they would not heare for they will not heare that doe not heare to doe what they are requested I have prest this example the more to declare how troubles awake the conscience from a dead sleepe and turn our eyes into our owne bosomes that if there lye a notoriouâ— unrepented sinne in the heart stoned as low as Jonah who lay asleepe in the bottome of the shippes Hold affliction will romage the ship and will cry as the Mariners to Ionah Awake thou sleeper and bring it above hatches Therefore it is wisedome by confession by repentance and prayer to quit our consciences so soone as we can of such sinnes Here is a sinne of bloud almost a full yeare old and though Nathan hath pronounced Gods pardon of it the conscience of David is not yet at rest his thoughts are upon it and his prayers be concerning it 2 Another of Sathans seasons to call such speciall sinnes to remembrance is when we are neare our end that is a season wherein many of the faithfull servants of God have dangerous and fearefull conflicts with Sathan After his 40. daies temptation of Christ in the wildernesse it is said that he departed from him for a season Once he borrowed the heart and tongue of an Apostle even of Peter to tempt him but Christ resented him and said Get thee behinde me Sathan but he confesseth a little before his passion The Prince of this world commeth but he hath nothing in me There is his advantage against us when any speciall sinnes lye upon the conscience unrepented then he hath something of his in us This makes many an aking heart upon death-beds for then judgement is at hand and the old flatterie of sinne Dominus tardabit the Lord will delay is removed by the sensible decay of the body and the evident symptomes of approaching death The widdow of Sarepta when her onely sonne was dead was in a storme at Eliah and said unto him What have I to doe with thee O thou man of God art thou come to call my sinne to remembrance and to slay my sonne Did the death of her sonne call her sinne to remembrance bethinke you then how our owne death in sight and sense will call all our sinnes to remembrance that we have done And in this Inventorie if there be any capitall sinne texted and recorded by the conscience in great and capitall letters not yet blotted out by our repentance and Gods gracious pardon how will that sin present it selfe to present remembrance how will it cruciate and torment the inward man even the hid man of the heart Judas his last words gushed out the bowels of his despaire as his last passion did the bowels of his body I have sinned in betraying innocent bloud he had not the heart to breath one miserere have mercy to comfort the agony of his despairing end The penitent convert thiefe on the Crosse was in a better minde he glorified God and his Sonne Christ by a free confession for he rebuked his blasphemous fellow thiefe saying Dost not thou feare God seeing we are in the same condemnation and we indeed justly for wee receive the reward of our deeds but this man hath done nothing amisse This had beene the Crosse of his soule as that he hung on was of his body if his faith had not nailed his sinnes as fast to Christ as Christ was nailed for them to his Crosse which he declared in the next words And he said unto Iesus Lord remember me when thou commest into thy kingdome which was answered with bodie mecum cris to day thou shalt be with me It is worthy our observing that Iesus Christ did institute the holy Sacrament of his Passion the evening before his suffering as it were acting his death in visible demonstration before he under-went it To teach how effectuall the death of Christ is against our sinnes and for preparation of the soule for her remove hence And from hence it is that the holy Church hath not only offered this Sacrament as the bread of our spirituall life to nourish it but hath commended it also to sicke persons upon their death beds as viaticum animae the provision of the soule so the Councell of Nice calleth it That the conscience being then purged from all sinne may receive Iesus Christ inâ—o it And in this holy action our search of our hearts will soone finde out any eminent and notorious sinne to confesse and repent it that the conscience may be disburthened and that the soule of man may be domus pacis the house of peace for otherwise we receive that Sacrament unworthily to our condemnation Our Saviour is precise in this If thou bring thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee More if God have ought against thee leave there thy gift Goe and be reconciled et offer and then bring it This is a Sacrament from God to us it is a sacrifice from us to God If any great extraordinary sinne lye upon the conscience we had best exonerate us thereof for we and our gift will else be unacceptable to him If God receive our gift he will not refuse us for he looketh first upon Abel then on his sacrifice we make our offering acceptable not that us Now because our sinnes lye so heavy especially our notorious sinne this or that particular transgression upon our conscience in the agonie of death Christ hath ordained a gracious remedy that upon our repentance the faithfull Minister of the Word should

mention of a Church in Abel we have Cain to murder him Before Isaak wee have Ishmael to scorn and persecute him Iacob wrastleth with Esau before he is borne in the wombe and Esau ever hated Jacob in their posterity When Israel was established a visible Church in Iacobs Family a famine sent them into Egypt where after a few yeares their City of refuge proved their house of bondage God delivered them and sent them home to their own Land they had many enemies in the way and when they came home their sword cuttl em out â—ooâ—e for habitation and under their Iudges and Kingâ— their Chronicles are full of names When the Christian Church began in the revelation of Christ â—he â—nnocent infants were the first sacrifice offered by the sword of â—erâ—d Christ himselfe pursued to death to the Crosse His Disciples Apostles and Confessours suffered in the ten bloudy Persecutions Then began rents in the Church and Heresie grew as cumbersome and busie and cruell as in fidelity The Arian Persecution brake down the walls of Jerusalem And then in the Waine of the Empire The Turke arose in the East to the great terrour of Christs little flocke This Church of ours which hath like the fleece of Gedeon been watered when all the floore about it was dry standeth now like a Lily amongst thornes We have great cause to pray for good and strong wals for our Ierusalem wals of Gods own building left the arrows of our enemies stick fast in our flesh and their swords drinke our bloud Yet it is well for us that wee know who can build the walls of the Church strongly and fortifie it against the gates of Hell For the gods of the Heathen are but Idols there is no helpe in them their eyes see not their eares heare not their hands help not Let us but recover our God by repentance redeeme his favour with a sacrifice of broken and contâ—ire spirits and he will build up our walls and repaire our â—uines and fortifie our desolate places Our Fathers in the darknesse of Popery had this strong beliefe that the Church and State was more strengthened by zealous and devout prayers then by all other provisions for offence and that was the motive that advanced so many Religious Houses and setled upon them so faire and plenteous revenues that they might have many at continuall leasure to be alwayes praying for them It was great pity that their holy zeale had not some equal proportion of knowledge for in their way they were devout and before the pestilent Incendiaries of the Church came up who turned Religion into Policie and Zeale into Fury I doubt not but God had many faithfull and true soules in the Church of Rome full of his love jealâ—us of his honour whose holy devotion kept up the walls of Ierusalem and prospered all the works of their hands 2 Observe the petitions of David Doe good to Sion Build up the walls of Ierusalem he doth pray for defence of his Church against enemies hee doth not pray that God would turn all their Sythes into Swords and strengthen them to an offensive warre Though David were a Sword-man and had laâ—ely recovered Sion by his sword by the Jebusite he prayeth not for warre and strength to pluck down the walls of other Cities But that God would build up the wals of his own God is called the God of peace and though hee be daily provoked by the bold sins of men to draw his sword hee is loth to strike he would have us like himself to be very jealous how we undertake an offensive warre let Religion and Policie joyn in advise before a Sword be drawne against any neighbour state that wee may have God to Friend that we may say The Lord of hâ—asts is with us For then there are more with us then against us still these two Iudges of the quarrell have determined the justice of warre let us hold our hands For iâ— Princes engage their Subjects in unlawfull warres all the bloud spilt on their sides is put upon their account but this petition of David is ever safe VERSE 19. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnesse with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering then shall they offer Bullocks upon thine Altar HEre is the successe of David suit obtained For if God will be pleased to declare himselfe the Patron and Protector of his Church to do it good and to sence it against the enemy Then followeth a double event 1 In David and the people For they will apply themselves to the worship of God 2 In God he will accept of their service 1 For David and the people They do not set God a price of their service as if he must bay it of them by doing them good and building their walls But hee sheweth what good use the faithfull servants of God will make of his favours they will use them as motives to his free service They shall enjoy peace and prosperity and good leasure Nature teacheth this retribution the shepheard Ille meos errare boves ut cernis My wandring oxen as you see c. And how may this be considered Namque erit ille mihi semper Deus illius aram c. He is my God his Altar I le frequent In time of peace and prosperity and in the cleare light of heavenly knowledge God declareth himselfe most clearly and deserveth the worship of his servants most apparantly and Deus nobis haec otia fecit these times of rest our God vouchsafes There is the season for it But we have God complaining often of the contrary For the prosperity of Fooles destroyeth them and wee are never more wanton and carelesse of Gods service then when he feedeth us fattest and doth us most good But Ieshurun waxed fat and kicked thou art waxed fat thou art growne thick thou art covered with fatnes then he forsook God that made him and lightly esteemed the rocke of his salvation Too much compost doth make the ground ranke and full of weeds This did God foresee and gave them great warning oâ—it In the former Chapter When I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their Fathers which floweth with milke and hony and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat then will they turne unto other Gods and serve them and provoke me and break my Covenant And they did so and it cost them deare a deportation for 70 yeeres into Babylon After the returne the Levites in their confession acknowledge so much to justifie Gods severe proceeding against them and to cast all the blame upon themselves And they took strong Cities and a fat Land and possessed housesfull of all goods wels Olives Vineyards fruit-trees So they did eat and were filled and became fat But they were disobedient and rebelled against thee and cast thy Laew behind their backs This commeth generally of fulnesse it is the sin

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