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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

life it self slide from him with no more disturbance and with more comfort and contentment than Passengers in a Boat upon the Thames see the great City and the fair houses glide from them when their business is at Whitehall and Westminster the City and Court of the great King His soul is landed in Heaven already It was rarely spoken by that old Souldier of Henry the 4th of France who having received his deaths wound in one of his many battles when he was above 80. years old and his friends coming about him to condole and comfort him against the fear of death what saies he have I lived above fourscore years and do you think I do not know how to die a quarter of an hour he can die any day every day 2 Cor. 25. 31. that dies daily his heart will never be broken for leaving the world at his death whose heart hath bin broken in leaving the world in his life 3. I have nothing to do now but only to give you two words 1. To quicken you to get your hearts broken if they be not 2. To caution you that you be sure they are broken 1. That you would get your hearts broken if they be not and that for two short Reasons 1. Is from the Text that this is the only sacrifice that God will not despise this he ownes and loves above all others at least all others for and in this All sacrifices and services without this are but broken sacrifices broken services A sacrifice without a heart was a Prodigy and without a broken heart is a Profanation that which break●●● makes us Vulnus opem tulit our wounds blee●●●●am 2. A broken and contrite heart gives you a key into Gods presence-chamber you have a Patent for it under Gods hand and seal will you see the Charter Esay 57. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and the holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the pir it of the humble and to revive the spirit of the contrite ones Here is oyle of Gladnesse indeed but it is a broken vessel that must receive it a broken and humble heart 2. To caution as well as quicken you that you give not over the work till you be sure your hearts are broken I shall hint four Reasons 1. Because your hearts are deceitfull and apt to put a cheate upon you especially in this duty this irksome duty of searching your own hearts to be satisfied that they are really broken you had need call a Parliament a great Councel of all the facultys in the polity of man together for this scrutiny and be assured thou shalt find thy heart as full of tricks and juggles to keep thee off from calling this Councel as the Church of Rome put upon the Christian Princes of that age about calling that councel which proved the Councel of Tre●t It was a good time before his holiness would be preswaded the Church or Court of Rome needed reformation there was omnia benè Therefore a Councel would be as needlesse as physick to a sound body but at last to stopp the mouth of the loud clamours of the world a councel is yeilded to but the time and place kept them in many years debate to while out the time till they hoped their zeal might cool but at length called it was but what was the Issue of it why that councill that was designed for a scourge of the Church and Court of Rome proved a successful engine of its advnacement such is commonly the result of such great and tumultous assemblies as they are managed by parts and partyes So their ordinary product are the dictates of wit and power for the most part to the raising of the worst if not to the ruine of all as we have but too lately seene but to apply it to our purpose Thou wouldest faine bring thy heart to the test to try whether it be that broken and mortified humble thing it pretends to Never expect to find it willing to stand the triall What to be cut and cauterized to be prob'd and tented to run through the macerations and martrizations of a thorough examination It will never endure it when it comes to the push it will give thee the slip if thou doest not looke to it it will use all the petty arts imaginable to keep it self from gaging and garbling it will tell thee thy heart is a good heart if you can let it alone there is many a worse heart that passes for a better is any man but you so nice and scrupulous and so cruell to his own flesh which he should love and cherish as to rake and grable Eph 5. in his own heart and to seek that in it which thou wouldest be sorry to finde and if thou doest not finde it thou wilt be as sorry thou hast searched it come let it alone man thy heart is as good a heart as others are but suppose all this fine deluding Rhetorick will not doe thou seest a necessity of searching thy heart to the quick and art resolved to set upon the work see if the Devil and thine own heart have not some trick in lavender to divert thy most serious intentions with some plausible pretences or other as sicknesse business company Pol me occidistis amici is too often true in this case of breaking the heart from breaking the heart But to make short work with it as thou must doe if thou wilt make any work at all If God at last smite thee by his word or sword that thou beginst to reflect upon thy self and say sure I am not in the way to Heaven that streight and narrow way I am not so strict as I should be for all my heart flatters me thus And therefore nothing shall keepe me from searching Then look for the grandest cheat of all then have a care thy treacherous heart doe not make thee believe that every little qualm of conscience is a heart-breaking every sleight touch at a Sermon every heart-ach for any affliction thou fearest or feelest and when all is done have a care that thy heart does not out-wit thee at last and that that meanes which thou usest as the most proper expedient to break thy heart doe not harden it more O thou dost not know thine own heart man It is a cunning and a cosening piece of flesh you have a strange example of this if you need any in Hazael 2 Kin. 11. 12. 13. Elisha looked upon him stedfastly till he was ashamede and the man of God wept and Hazael said why weeps my Lord and he answered because I know the evils that thou shalt doe unto the Children of Israel And when he had told him all his cruelties he should be guilty of What says Hazael Is thy servant a dogg He would not believe his heart was so base and yet the man that was so much