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A93050	A broken heart, or The grand sacrifice. As it was laid out in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Beverley, in the East-riding of the county of Yorke, upon the monthly fast-day in Christmas-weeke, being Decemb. 28. 1642. By John Shawe, pastor of the church at Rotherham in the same county.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3027; Thomason E95_13; ESTC R12113	25,506	45

away Vse 1. It s no signe then of the true Religion to have an outward glorious pompous outside no if it want a broken heart it s but vaine oblations Isa 1. 13. but taking Gods name in vaine Satan may still dwell in the heart for all Iudases devotion Ioh. 13. 27. And himselfe be a devill Ioh. 6. 70. Wee may for all them neither truly draw nigh to God Mat. 15. 8. Nor he to us Prov. 1. 27 28 29. Indeed was it not so I would confesse that bloodsucking Monster of Rome that kills the bodies Rev. 13. 15. and sells soules of men Rev. 18. 13. To carry away the Bell from all Churches for guilded Pictures Vestments Tapers Images cringings bowings Crucifixes Altars Musicke c. Long Prayers strange gestures to make sport for children and I heare them brag of these Alas who required these and had they bin good as they are not yet one broken heart or one poore servants Prayer with a broken heart is worth 10000. of them Vse 2. Would have told us that in old Testament as well as new God required spiritual service else cringing and laying hand on head of Sacrifice would not serve without slaying sinne and broken hearts Vse 3. Those may be dub'd for fooles then that ground their salvation and boast upon their good duties without brokenesse and humblenesse of spirit alas Ahab repeated Simon Magus believed Herod reformed Iudas preached many wrought miracles Matt. 7. Pharisees fasted gave Almes and prayed Matt. 6. yet lost both themselves and their labour there are source things men count eminent and much rest on 1 Naturall abilities of body and minde yet for all Achitophels wit Goliahs strength Absolons beauty Balams subtilty may perish eternally 2 Artificiall Endowments Yet Demetrius for all his art Iulian for all his learning may perish c. A thousand others have had good parts and gifts this way good head-pieces but bad heart-pieces like a Toade with a Pearle in her head but poysonous body 3 Glorious duties yet all they Matt. 6. praying hearing Matt. 7. 21 22. Luk. 13. 27 Cry it is not in me are they Gods to save they are but Bridges to lead us to Christ 4. glittering graces such as five foolish Virgins had Ahabs repentance Magus's faith c. Vse 4. This would tell us also of the straite gate to life and broad way to hell not onely heathenish Pagans Secondly idolatrous Christians if so I may terme so foule a thing with so faire a name Thirdly prophane vitious Protestants but Fourthly foolish virgios that have lamps without true Oyle Math. 25. 3. Want the Oyle typed out Exod. 30. 23 24. Made of the dropping myrre of true Repentance the strong Cinamon of a lively faith the large spreading Cassis of universall obedience a sweet smelling Calamus or Oyle Olive of love I say even the best of these without broken hearts cannot please God therefore many perish c. Vse 5. Sheves a golden path between two Rocks neither leave the duties undone nor yet carnally shuffle them over but doe them 1. From a right principle a broken spirit Psal 1. 25 4. Ioh. 4. 23. The want of this spoild Jehues zeale 2 Ki 10. 31. Iudas his piety Iewes devotion Mat. 15. 8. 23. 28. Like watches clocks jacks ran apace are Automata but no life within 2. For a right end not for our selves Hos 0 1. Our praise as Pharisees to be seene of men or Profit as Iudas for bag or feare of punishment onely as Iewes Zach. 7. 5 6. For knavery to cover and colour it Pro. 7. 14 15. But for Gods glory 1 Cor. 10. 31. 3ly By a right rule according to Gods Word Heb. 8. 5. 1 Cor. 7. 19. 1 Joh. 5. 14. They erre therefore that doe duties from a wrong principle Lamps without Oyle a wrong end as Iehu for a Kingdome by a wrong rule Isa 58. 5. Outwardly without heart Mat. 15. 8. When rest upon them the Temple of the Lord Temple of the Lord when still live in their sins Isa 1. 16. Ps 66. 18. Vse 6. Try whether we are like to doe poore Ireland distressed England any good this day we have now kept fasts these 12. Months but is it with broken hearts Zach. 7. 5. 6. Or only like a bulrush fresh green smooth outside without a knot but within nothing but a spongeous Vaine pith no wonder if we still fare no better while still we keepe such unbroken slinty hearts I remember Demetrius and the rest Acts 1934. of his crafty fellowes cry out two whole houres great great is Diana What was Diana an Idoll what is an Idoll nothing 1 Cor. 8. 4. Now what a stir had these men made two houres about a great great nothing magnum nihil if wee have all this twelve moneth sowen the wind we can expect no more but to reape the whirlewind if all this without broken hearts God may give us that sad answer Mat. 7. 23. Ten righteous persons would save Sodom but they must be broken hearted ones also in Gods account are no men Ier. 5. 1. But your occasions constraine me onely to salute the first that I may larglier settle on the second and maine point from the 17. Verse which is this Obs 2. A broken heart contrite spirit is exceeding pleasing and acceptable to God so the Text its Sacrifices its Sacrifices of God it s such Sacrifices as he will never despise such a frame of spirit God commauds Ier. 4. 3. Hos 10. 12. Such he commends by cleere Texts Psal 34. 18. 147. 3. God hath two chiefe places of residence the highest Heavens and the lowest heart Isa 57. 15. At the proud God who is higher then the highest scornes to looke at them but hath an Eagles Eye to a broken spirit Isa 56. 2. To helpe such was Christ anointed Isa 61. 1. Such are blessed Mat. 5. 3. By parables broken hearted Prodigall Luk. 15. The broken hearted Publican Eu. 18. By example broken hearted Hannah 1 Sam. 2. 1. Iosiah 2 Kings 22. 19 20 21. Manasseh 2 Chron. 33. 11 12 13. c. A broken vessell as St. Bernard well holds Gods liquor the best And now you that are the stronger flock of Christ and could journey faster afford us a little patience while I unroll the stone for your Lambs and great with young to drinke a Acts 19. 34. little for why should not we spend our braines and lungs for the poorest of these for whom Christ died and then I 'le coast the shore with what good speede I may Let me a little unfold these two things 1. What is meant by heart and spirit 2. What by broken and contrite Q. 1. What 's here meant by heat and spirit Ans Not that fleshly heart in mans body for if that be pricked or broken the party dies presently but mans soule or inside take me with you thus in short man consists of two essentiall parts or in Scripture phrase two men inward

best and eminentest kind of Sacrifices as Mountaine of God Word of God people of God are the eminentest 3. Such as God will not despise i. e. Highly prize and value as 1 Thess 5. 20. Despise not i. e. Highly prize prophesing There remaines now one maine rubb or materiall Objection in the way to be removed and then I shall post apace and case you with what hast I may Object How can it be said that God required not neither delighted in sacrifices c. Seeing in the book of Leviticus in all ceremoniall Law God commanded them his people in the old Testament dayly offered them and God was well pleased with and accepted of them Heb. 11. 4. Gen. 8. 20. 21. Nay in the next Verse but one of this Psal David promiseth them verse 19. Ans To this our Divines doe as I conceive truly and fully give answer in two points First God never required Sacrifices comparatively i. e. In comparison of a broken heart it s nothing it s not to be compared with it thus Hos 6. 6. Mercy and not Sacrifice i. e. More or rather then Sacrifice thus Ioel 2. 13. Rend your hearts and not your garments i. e. Rather Secondly God never required them abstractly severed from a brokē heart the best Sacrifices without a broken heart God never delighted in thus Isai 1. 11 12 13. Who required your Burnt Offerings Sacrifices Sabbaths new Moones id est God never required or delighted in the best of these joyned with living in their sins vers 16. and severed from a broken heart thus concerning fasting see Isai 58. 4 5. I will slash our Text no longer as some doe their garments till more gay and lesse warme idem vitii habet nimia as nulla divisio this is not a day of curious dividing Texts much lesse Kingdomes but hearts only this sad day and time speaks no curious toyes but plaine dealing expect not much from me beloved that can performe but little at best especially on this suddaine chiefly now being from books and meanes thus torne distracted and divided Observe onely after our plaine homespun Countrey manner two plain truths from these two verses 1. from the 16. vers Obser That all the best outward dutyes and services such as God in his word requires if performed without a broken and contrite heart are no way delightsome but displeasing to God See for this Isai 1. 11 12 13 14. 66. 2 3. The Scripture mentions that the best duties and services done without a broken heart God abhors the dutyes Isa 1. 13. Psal 66. 18. Isa 66. 2 3. as if it had not been done Rom. 2. 28 29. 2 Abhors the person or doer of such services cals them dogs dirt chaffe c. 1 Cor. 10. 5. God was not pleased with such persons and the Pharisee for all his fasting more then ordinary and paying and praying went away not justified Luk. 18. 12 13 14. 3 Will damne them hereafter not withstanding all their duties Matth. 7. 21. Luk. 13. 27. All these can no more hinder the fire of Gods wrath from destroying Kingdomes or persons then a wispe of dry straw can stop fire from entring in at a gap Zach. 7. And not onely Scripture but all reason speakes this truth Reas 1. From the words of text because God never required them Prayer hearing keeping Sabbaths receiving Sacraments God indeed requires and enjoynes so did he Sacrifices but Prayer hearing receiving c. without a broken heart such God never required from the first of Genesis to the last of Revelation no one place ever required such Isai 58. 5. Ier. 7. 22 23. God never spake one word of such Reas 2. Because such empty services Hos 10. 1. as are without this brokennesse are in Scripture called duties and no duties services and no services as is said in the Riddle 2 Kings 17. in vers 33. Text saith those mongrel Samaritans feared God But next verse it saith they feared not God so 1 Sam. 28. 6. It s said that Saul enquired of the Lord yet 1 Chron. 10. 14. Saul enquired not of the Lord so in 1 Sam. 2. 23 24. with 3. 13. Thus ancients expound those places where it s said that the Jewes sought not God fasted not were not circumcised as Jer. 9. 25 26. c. Reas 3. Because such services are but bodily exercise 1 Tim. 4. 8. Now of your dearest Wife Child c. What do you care for the presence of their body though never so beautifull and pleasant formerly if it want a heart a soul no you say with Abraham let me bury my dead out of my sight no more doth God care for carcasses and rotten outsides of duties such Circumcision bodily only is nothing Rom. 2. 25 26. Ier. 9. 25 26. Reas 4. When men forme glorious outward services without broken hearts they pride themselves in and rest on them now resting upon duties upon the opus operatum or worke done is one kind of spiritual Idolatry I know no more reason that a man should worship the Crosse because Christ suffered on it then that a man should worship the Gibbet or Gallowes because his father or brother suffered thereon The Crosse was no piece of our redemption I know no more reason why I should worship an Image though never so gloriously guilded then that I should worship a dog or grasse that is the workmanship of man these of Gods hands and so more eminent and yet I know no more reason to rest on duties then either of the former Is there no kinde of Idolatrie but worshipping stocks and stones yes Ezek. 14. 7. witnesse second Commandement resting on Temple of the Lord Temple of the Lord God can abide nothing worse Ier. 7. 4. then pride in their performances this honey in their Sacrifices when they come with handfulls to God see Mat. 7. 21. 23. Luk. 13. 27 28. Pharisees did performe abundance of duties hecatombes of Sacrifices Matth. 6. 2. 5. 7. some say they prayed eight houres a day and yet except our righteousnesse go beyond theirs no heaven Matt. 5. 20. Reas 5. Breaking of the heart is the end of Sacrifices therefore better then they what are they without it Sacrifices not onely though mainly typed out that true propitiatory Sacrifice The Lambe of God that takes away sins of world but also shadowed out the cutting asunder and breaking of the heart of him that brought it renting of cloths noted renting of heart I see more Corne under my hand then I can thresh out speedily and yet your extraordinary occasions * Mr. Major sent us word that he had especial command about the Souldiers that day this day cause me cut short my distracted thoughts and therefore because I would mainly insist on the second point I must adjourne the other reasons and uses of this point and remaine your debter till another time only mentioning one or two of the heads and that but like Gideons Souldiers lap and