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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 naus●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 primā the best robe he came home hungry hee demāded 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 Octog●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 lea● 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 ● pestilence amongst the people which in three dayes consumed of that great number threescore and ten thousand plectuntur

Whatsoever we do against God we do it against our selves Whatsoever we do evill is against God it opposeth his will it resisteth his word and commandment it valueth the pleasure of sinne more then his favour and exchangeth God for a vain delight Is not this an high offence 3 He putteth it home Tibi soli peccavi against thee alone have I sinned Some question is made how David can say Soli Thee alone Did not he offend Vriah in defiling his bed in sending for him to colour his adultery in taking him home under a pretence of entertainment to make him drunk After all to procure his death did he not sinne against Bathsheba to defile her Did he not sinne against Joab to make him a murtherer Did he not sinne against his own body to destroy the temple of the Lord and to defile a vessell of holinesse with uncleannesse Did he not trespasse the Church which was ashamed and grieved at his aberration Did he not trespasse his double unction of King and Prophet how then doth he say Tibi soli against thee alone Mr. Calvin doth two wayes answer this question 1 That he had done this sinfull act secretly and so had none to make his peace withall but God who onely knew the offence This doth not help for Joab knew that he was an instrument of Davids injustice he knew he had defiled his own body she knew And no question but it was resented of many But this Psalme was made for the use of the Church after all was out against him 2 That he denyeth not the full extent of his fault but making his confession to God he declareth what did most cruciate and disquiet his conscience onely this that he had sinned against God and provoked his anger against him This may passe for a good solution of the question for the sinne against God extendeth to both Tables of the Law and when we trespasse our own selves or our neighbours we sinne mainly against God in both The full extent of our sinne is onely against God Every sinne hath a branching and dispersion like so many brooks running into one maine streame all empty themselves into the Sea all finally wrong God Mr. Calvin addeth his own judgement Tibi soli against thee alone Howsoever the secrecie of my sinfull acts may keep it out of sight from some and the flatterie of others may cast excuses or defences upon it and the charity of others may like Sem and Japhet cast a garment upon it to hide it may connive at it or pardon it To thee I have sinned thou doest know it and it appeares onely to thee in the full and true proportion I cannot hide it from thee This also may be well received He addeth that he nameth God onely because God onely hath the vengeance in his hand and he is in no danger but of him For who on earth hath power to chasten Kings for sinne but God onely There was no Pope above Kings in David's time The high Priest a type of Christ was nothing so great a man as the Pope the Vicar of Christ But the truth is when Christ came to reveale himself then began Sathan first to lay claime to all the kingdomes of the earth and the power to dispose of them and he made Christ a great offer to give them all to him But what Elisha would not Gehezi his man would what Christ refused his Vicar sticks not to accept of after Saint Augustine cleareth the doubt another way Tibi soli peccavi quiatu sol●ss sine peccato ille justus punitur qui non habet quod puniatur Against thee onely have I sinned because thou alone art without sinne That just one was punished who had nothing in him to be punished Some reade to thee onely Peccavi I have sinned because none but he can pardon sinne as God saith I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake I best may satisfie my own judgement with reference of this complaint of David to the reproof of Nathan Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evill in his sight David striketh here at the root of his sinne from whence all his other iniquities and transgressions and sinnes of which he complained derived themselves It was my sinning against thee in the contempt of thy word that hath undone me and made me a prey to Sathan He that in the Serpent found that way to undo the first Adam in Paradise by drawing him away from the word he ever since hath tried that conclusion with all his posteritie and hath much advanced his kingdome by it he tryed the same way with Christ in the wildernesse but he kept him to the word Scriptum est it is written And therefore he tryed him by the word and urged Scriptum est it is written to him hoping by the word to have recovered him from the word And ever since his great agents especially Hereticks and Schismaticks are great Textmen This clearing of the words of David pointeth us to the beginning of all sinne in us which is at swarving from the word of God David found it so dangerous that the whole 119. Psalme is aymed at that sinne Vers 1. and 2. he pronounceth them blessed that walk in this way and keep his testimonies Vers 3. They do no iniquitie c. Vers 4. he urgeth Gods commandment for this to keep his precepts diligently Vers 5. O that my wayes were directed to keep thy statutes 8. I will keep thy statutes O forsake me not utterly His desire to the word his comfort from the word his joy in the word his estimation of the word his love to the word all the Psalme is full of these holy meditations We may all confesse in this respect with David that we have sinned against God onely for having the word in that plentie and so many helps by hearing and reading to take benefit of it Our ungodly lives testifie that we depart from it Which of our sinnes doth the word of God favour which doth it not threaten with losse of the kingdome of heaven as the Angels that sinned lost their habitation and Adam his paradise for departing from that word Israel Gods darling people lost their Canaan and first ten Tribes were lopt from the Church then cut off from the state and carried away and never heard of The remaine lost all and live now in dispersion it is our sinne and we begin to stinke in the nosthrils of God heare and feare And done this evill in thy sight 2 Here is the boldnesse of his sinne wherein let us consider 1 The person I. 2 The commission done 3 The trespasse evill 4 The particularity this 5 The daring of it in thy sight 1 Of the person It is againe prest and may not be omitted in our consideration For let every one consider his own person in all his delinquences and he shall finde so much more quarrell