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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

not sacrifices or burnt offerings he delighted not in them true it is he commanded them but not for themselves but as outward expressures of inward affection and zeale and devotion faith and repentance Therfore it is said by faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain by which he obtained witnesse of God that he was righteous By which faith or by which sacrifice filled by faith he had that witnesse David having so heinously offended God as you have heard declareth that outward service by sacrifices is not the way of reconciliation The Jews put too much confidence in this kind of worship and wee had need to rectifie Religion in this point Outward duties are severely exacted by the ordinance of God But the desire of God is not to them nor his delight in them his Commandement and his desire his precept and his delight are a full sacrifice outward and inward When these are parted it is not religion but formall and ceremoniall profession onely The outward service of God is but the body and carcasse of the service the inward is the soule and as a body without a soule is dead so is the outward without the inward The Jews were very peccant in this kinde and placed their Religion much in these outward Ceremonies The Pharisies who were the Puritans of those times did affect outward appearances praying and giving almes and fasting and disfiguring their faces to be seene of men and all their austerity of life was in sight to breed opinion of holinesse which Christ detecteth and detesteth This was the leaven of the Pharisies that sowred all the masse of their Religion And David would teach us here that God never desired these outward things alone or for themselves but for the better advancement of his service for the further and clearer remonstrance of our loving duty to him For what careth God for any thing of ours who have all that we possesse of his free gift And why may not an Hypocrite have as full an hand though not as free an heart to offer sacrifice to God as the most holy and devout servant of God hath You see the lesson here read to you that you must not think to please God with outward things alone For except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter into the Kingdome of heaven Scribes and Pharisees were for externall worship the most precise observers of the Law that ever made profession of Religion They did strive to over-doe the law in many things therfore S. Paul calleth them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most exquisite Sect of all The Law saith six dayes shalt thou labour the seventh rest They divided their working dayes into three parts One for Prayer A second for reading the Law The third for Work Two thirds they gave to God In oblations to God and in tithes they exceeded the Law and gave more then was exacted Two dayes in the week they fasted wholly from from all food for almes they gave beyond their ability generally in outward things they spared neither cost no● pains to seeme religious Yet Christ putteth us to it to exceed not their outward shew and performances but their righteousnesse Here was hasty running but it was out of the way all this that they did might be done without any true righteousnesse It is but so much more paine taken to go to hell There is somewhat else in it that wee must looke to and that is delivered by David in the next Verse Here is D●●iss●m I had given put off with non desidera● non delectaris thou desirest not thou art not delighted with which teacheth us to apply our service to the desire of God to his delight 1 To the desire to that which he requireth of us 2 We must not stay there but affect to delight God which makes this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fuller sacrifice If God should say he hath no delight in us where were we then As we must delight in the Lord so wee must compose our selves in such sort as he may delight in us The just are the jewels of the Lord precious stones and they must be well set that in the day when hee maketh up his jewels we may be called his Then shall wee be as the apple of his eye as the signe● on his right hand If but two or three of these meet in the Name of God God is in medio in the middest If they offer him a sacrifice hee smelleth a sweet favour of rest These are Vines of his plantation the wine which they yeeld doth please God and man Let his desire and delight be the rule of our service of him that his delight may be to be with the sonnes of men Observe how holily proud God was of Iob to Satan Hast thou not considered my servant Iob and of David 〈◊〉 Davidem servum meum I have ●ound David my servant And to Cornelius the Angell of the Lord said Thy prayers and thine al●●s are come up for a 〈◊〉 before God Come up before God he taketh notice of them delights in them Come up for a memoriall God will not forget them to receive to reward them Comming to Church for fashion without devotion hearing without desire to profit by it entreating earnestly and saying good Master what shall I do c. And when wee know and God hath shewed what is good and what hee requireth at our hands and with what he is delighted to go away sorrowing as the young rich man in the Gospel did is the marke of an Hypocrite It is the Apostles argument of perswasion To do good and to distribute forget not for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased Saint Paul speaking of their Fathers saith They were all under the cloud they passed through the Sea They were baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea They did all eat the same spirituall meat and dranke c. But with many of them God was not well pleased What are all the benefits which we receive from God or all the services that we perform to God if God be not pleased with them and us his favours turn to rods and our services turne to injuries to him O let us labour to please and delight our God for in his favour is life If the light of his countenance shine on us we are well Happy are we that God will vouchsafe to receive us or to take delight in any thing that we say or think or purpose or desire or endevour or performe Such dead dogs as wee are so laden with iniquities so weak by our infirmities so dark in our understandings so cold in our zeale and in all goodthings so imperfect onely for our desire to give him delight acceptable to him VERSE 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart ô God thou wilt not despise IN the affirmation here David sheweth what