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A92852	England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the onely way to prevent destroying judgements: preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their last solemne fast, being on May, 25. 1642. By Obadiah Sedgwicke Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that house.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2372; Thomason E150_22; ESTC R212706	31,012	58

bee broken for your sinnes nothing that you doe shall finde favour with me all the rest is but as wood and fire the Lambe the Sacrifice of a Contrite heart which is that I look at and for is wanting Get thee behinde me said Jehu to the severall messengers what have you to doe with peace Confessions and prayers are the messengers of our soules to God but unlesse the sinful heart be broken they will never be messengers of peace If any of you would angle in a River would you throw in a naked line only would this be to any purpose Sirs I know well that if a Fast bee rightly performed it hath as many promises of blessings and mercies See Esay 58. As any religious duty whatsoever Nay and I thinke that you never read in all the Bible nor yet in experience of its right performance without some sudden and remarkeable Testimony of Gods gracious acceptance and answer But then breaking of hearts ever accompanied those prevailing and victorious Fasts as you may Reade in Iudges and Samuel and the Kings and Ezra and Nehemiah c. And for my part I should not scruple the assecution of any convenient mercy nor the diversion of any impendent evill if once with all our Fastings there were also a breaking up of our Fallow grounds If GOD could in this command our hearts we might then in some sense command our God 3. Thirdly Have wee not all of us sufficient cause to breake our sinfull hearts Should sinnes should calamities abroad should dangers at home breake hearts all these may then worke upon us our sins have broken the heart of CHRIST and are such as have broken off God from a people and have broken many Churches downe Can you bee ignorant of the professed Idolatry in this Land of the horrid blasphemies of the over-flowing drunkennesse of the Sabbaths profanation c. And if wee looke at calamities abroad why as Iacob said Ioseph is not and Simeon is not so may we say Bohemia is broken up and the Palatinate is broken up and IRELAND is breaking up and yet the hearts of sinfull England will not bee broken up Nay if wee looke at the dangers hovering like a Cloud over this Land and dropping already in manifold and sundry divisions in manifold plots in manifold and severall contradictions and even readie to breake forth O LORD let it not breake forth in a bitter intestine Warre amongst our selves where every mans sword shall bee against his brother and the Child may kill the Parent or the Parent kill his Child bowels sheathed in bowels No man scarce secure in his owne Family our sins are bringing this upon us and yet our hearts will not breake for these sinnes The God of all Wisdome and mercies breake our hearts that so this judgement may not doe that which all our forreigne enemies hitherto could not doe Breake downe our Church and Nation 4. And if judgements should breake in upon sinners before hearts are broken for sins good Lord what where are they Dudilius relates a sad story of Bochna a woman who had but two sonnes and whiles she was walking with the one towards the River she heard the other crying out and hastning back shee found a knife sticking in him which kild him quickly then she returnes to her other child thinking to solace her selfe in an onely child but he in her absence was fallen into the river and drowned both lost at once Ah Sirs we have but two children a Soule and a body what an heavie losse will it bee to lose both these at once To bee cut off by an angry enemie and to be cast off by a mighty God! To lose a life and at the same time to lofe an eternall life To lose safety and salvation at once T is true that if a sinners heart be broken by grace there is no question of mercy but when an impenitent sinners life is broken by judgment his hopes are gone and his breaking of it for ever 5. Fifthly Wee shall assuredly be broken off if we be not broken up Beloved There are two vile malignities in an unbroken heart First It is one of the greatest of spirituall judgements ô said a Reverend man once if I must be put to my option I had rather be in Hell with a sensible heart then live on earth with a reprobate minde so I say an hardned and unbroken heart is in some respect a judgement worse than Hell for as much as one of the greatest sins is farre greater in evill then any of the greatest punishments Secondly It is the immediate and unavoydable forerunner of the greatest of temporall judgements He that hardens his heart shall be destroyed suddenly and that without remedy Prov. 29. 1. Observe that place There is no lesse then destruction which is not a particular and imperfect dammage but it is a compleate ruine and this destruction is certaine shall not may perhaps bee destroyed but when Suddenly I but the sinner wil shift it off withstand it No but hee shall bee destroyed without remedy His destruction shall not be prevented you may reade all this in the old World and in Pharaoh and in the Iewes before the Babylonian Captivitie and afterwards in the Roman divastation which hath lasted these 1600 yeares 6. But now where are our broken hearts I know not what to say my heartakes within mee ô that it could bee broken because hearts are generally unbroken Sinners are secure Consciences are seared wickednesse is bold sinnes are a delight and pastime God is not seene nor feared in his judgements in His warnings in His dealings Reformation is abhorred Humiliation most know not what it meanes and if they doe it is distasted Serious thoughts of our sinfull wayes who takes them up sufficient time for selfe-examination who makes it for himselfe every man runnes on in his course loves as hee did lives as he did And never knew a trouble in his soule nor a teare in his eye either for his owne or for the sins of others all his dayes And what will the end of all this be O that God would pittie us this day and breake our hearts for us though it bee so irksome and contrary to our flesh and bloud It is better said a Father to dye one death then to live and feare all deaths better it is to suffer the heart to bee broken then to expose our selves to all sorts of Judiciall eternall breakings ô Lord said dying Fulgen. Dapaenitentiam postea indulgentiam make mee a penitent sinner and then let me find thee an indulgent Father Never looke for great mercies for long mercies for any mercies with unbroken hearts we are not good we can doe no good we can expect no good till our sinfull hearts be broken O Christians be perswaded this day to get broken hearts God can do it for you and will doe it for you if you will but use the means and seeke unto him spare time and

is hatred of sin the Hatred of sin the consequent of heart breaking for sin A double hatred of sin heart which is rightly broken is not only broken for sin but also from sin by an hatred 1. Of abomination loathing it as the greatest evill Get thee hence say they in Esa 30. 22. And 2. Of enmi●y and irreconciliation what have I to doe any more with Idols saith Ephraim in Hosea 14. 8. Thus have you heard what the breaking up of the fallow ground or sinfull heart is now I proceed in few words to demonstrate That it is the meanes to prevent the breaking downe of a sinfull Nation this Quest 2. may evidently appeare 1. By the fingers of God in Scripture pointing a Sol. 4. Demonstrations of the proposition in its truth people to this worke that so they might not sinke into ruine but be preserved Read Ezekiel 18. 30 31. Ioel 2. 13 14. 2. By the pledges which God maketh in severall promises that if a sinfull Nation will take this course he will then spare them and continue them Read Ier. 18. 7 8. 2 Chron. 7. 14. 3. By the Records or Instances of Gods sparing a people and a revoking of his wrath and judgements when they have set upon this Heart-breaking course Read Ionah 3. 6 7 8 9 10. 2 Chronicles 34. 27. 4. By the executions of destruction because they would not hearken to this course See 2 Chro. 36. 15 16 17. But why should the breaking up of sinfull hearts bee a meanes to prevent the breaking downe of a sinfull Quest 3. Nation The Reasons are these because First where hearts are rightly broken for sinnes there sinnes are pardoned and where sinnes are pardoned Sol. 4. Confirmations of the proposition 2 Chro. 7. 14. Esay 1. 16. all breaking down is unquestionably prevented In Esaiah you reade of washing and cleansing they are the same with this heart-breaking and mourning and presently you reade of pardon Though your sinnes be as scarlet they shall bee as white as snow 18. c. and presently after that you reade of eating the 19. good of the Land a comfortable fruition of themselves and of their Country and of all meanes and blessings Beloved when sinnes are pardoned then 2. Effects of sins pardoned 1. All their guilty clamour is silenced pardoned sins are disabled sins they can bring no action against us debts forgiven shall never prejudice nor hurt us Sins unpardoned can raise posse comitatus all the Armies Remissa culpa remittitur paena of God in Heaven and Earth against sinners but once pardoned they are of no force or strength at all And secondly when sins are pardoned all good hath a free passage God is reconciled and mercies have their Commission to attend us Now saith the Lord I will heare the Heavens and they shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare the Corne and the Wine Hos 2. 21 22 and the Oyle and they shall heare Iezreel 2. Againe If sinfull hearts be broken God hath his end and then all quarrels cease twixt him and a 2. Nation the Lord doth not threaten destruction to a people for destructions sake but for Humiliations sake Not that they may be destroyed but that they should repent and not be destroyed 3. Thirdly Broken hearts are a wonderfull delight unto the Lord There are somethings in which 3. God hath no delight He hath no delight in sinnings Psalm 5. 4. Ezek. 18. 32. nor in punishments and there are two hearts in which God takes much delight namely in an upright heart and in a Contrite heart The broken heart hee will not despise nay hee will looke upon that heart to revive it If broken hearts be Gods delight and the objects of Psal 51. 17. Esa 57. 15. his reviving then without question they are a means to prevent destruction 4. Lastly when hearts are broken for sins then Gods heart if I may so phrase it is broken with compassions unto sinners Though sinners remaine obstinate yet divine compassions work strongly towards them How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee O Israel c. Hosea 11. 8. what bowels then thinke you are working in God when sinners are broken and humbled and turning If God can so hardly finde the way to punish impenitent Ephraim will he not find the way to spare an humbling Ephraim See Ier. 31. 18. I have surely heard Ephraim lamenting himselfe c. 20. My bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord. I have done with the explication of the point I now addresse my selfe to the Application of it 1. To all of us 2. To you of publike employment Is the breaking up of sinfull hearts the means to prevent the breaking downe of a sinning Nation Vse Then let every one of us here ô that the whole Land also would search and try the temper and frame of our hearts whither they be broken or unbroken Beloved I beseech you sadly to consider of a few things 1. That brokennesse of heart is the worke of this 6. Things considerable about brokennesse of heart day This is a day of Humiliation but what is an humbling day without an humbled heart to present your selves before the great God at such a time with all your sinnes and yet without hearts broken for those sins is not only an irreligious incongruity but also an high provocation of our God like Zimries act when all the Congregation were weeping before the doore of the Tabernacle Numb 25. 6. Come we not this day with all sorts of guilt upon our soules and with ropes about our neckes expecting if the Lord should render unto us our deserts the sentence of death and confesse as much and yet dare we to play the Hypocrites having hearts under all this utterly unbroken Secondly brokennesse of heart is the hope of this day I professe seriously unto you that were you as much in fasting as Iohns Disciples and in praying as Christs Disciples could you by Fasting make your knees to faint and your flesh to faile and resolve your bodies into a very Sceleton if yet your hearts were not broken for your sins Neither your selves nor your endaevours nor our owne Nation nor the distressed Church of Ireland nor any other would bee the better for it As one of the Fathers said of Learning All learning is suspected nay disrespected by me wherein is not the mention of Christ that I affirme of all solemne fastings whatsoever the Lord regards them not if the broken heart bee not found in them What Ioseph said to his brethren unlesse you bring your brother Benjamin with you you shall not see my face or as Isaac said to his Father Behold the Fire and the Wood but where is the Lambe for a burnt offering That the Lord saith unto us Fast as often as you please and pray too unlesse your hearts