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A30118 The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart shewing the nature, signs and proper effects of a contrite spirit / being the last works of that eminent preacher and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Bunyan of Bedford ; with a preface ... by a eminent minister of the Gospel in London. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1689 (1689) Wing B5480; ESTC R4996 69,020 270

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acquainted with that has his Heart Broken. 3. As he Sees and Feels so ●e HEARS that which augments his Woe and Sorrow You know if a man has his Bones broken he does not only See and Feel but oft-times also Hears what encreases his Grief as that his Wound 's uncurable that his Bone is not rightly sett that there is danger of a G●●green that he may be lost for want of looking to These are the Voices the Sayings that haunt the House of one that has his Bones broken And a Broken-hearted Man knows what I mean by this he hears that which makes his Lips quiver and at the noise of which he seems to feel Rottenness enter into his Bones He trembleth in himself and wishes that he may hear Joy and Gladness that the Bones the Heart and Spirit which God has Broken. may rejoyce Hab. 3. 16. Psal. 51. 8. He thinks he hears God say the Devil say his Conscience say and all good Men to whisper among themselves saying There is no help for him in God Job heard this David heard this Heman heard this and this is a common sound in the Ears of the Broken-hearted 4. The Broken-hearted SMELL what others cannot scent Alas Sin never smell'd so to any man alive as it smells to the Broken-hearted You know Wounds will stink but no stink like that of Sin to the Broken-hearted Man His own Sins stink and so doth the Sins of all the World to him Sin is like Carrion 't is of a stinking Nature yea it has the worst of smells however some Men like it Psal. 38. 5. But none are offended with the scent thereof but God and the Broken hearted Sinner My Wounds stink and are corrupt saith he both in God's Nostrils and mine own But alas Who smells the ●tink of Sin None of the Carnal World they like Carrion-Grows seek it love it and eat ●t as the Child eats Bread. They ●at up the Sin of my People saith God and set their Heart on their ●niquity Hos. 4. 8. This I say they do because they do not smell the Nautious Scent of Sin You know that what is Nautious to the smell cannot be Pallatable to the Taste The Broken-hearted Man doth find that Sin is nautious and therefore cries out it stinketh They also think at times the smell of Fire of Fire and Brimstone is upon them they are so sensible of the Wages due to Sin. 5. The Broken-hearted is also a Tasting Man. Wounds i● sore and full of Pains of great Pains do sometimes alter the Taste of a Man. They make him think his Meat his Drink yea that Cordials have a bitter Taste in them How many times doth the poor People of God that are the only men that know what a Broken-heart doth mean cry out that Gravel Wormwood Gall and Vinegar was made their Meat Lam. 3● 15 16 19. This Gravel Gall and Wormwood is the true temporal Taste of Sin and God to make them loath it for ever doth feed them with it till their Hearts both ake and break therewith Wickedness is pleasant of Tast● to the World Hence 't is said They feed on Ashes they feed on Wind sa 44. 20. Hos. 12. 1. Lusts or any thing that is Vile and refuse the Carnal World think ●elishes well as is set out most notably in the Parable of the Prodigal Son He would fain have filled his Belly saith our Lord with the Husks that the Swine did Eat But the Broken-hearted Man has a relish that 's true as to these things though by reason of the anguish of his Soul it also abhors all manner of dainty Meat Job 33. 19 20. Psal. 107. 17 18 19. Thus I have shewed you one sign of a Broken-hearted Man he is a sensible Man he has all the Sences of his Soul awakened he can See Hear Feel Taste Smell and that as none but himself can do I come now to another sign of a Broken and Contrite Man. Secondly And that is He is a very sorrowful Man. Thus as the other is natural 't is natural to one that is in Pain and that has his Bones broken to be a grieved and sorrowful Man. He is none of the jolly ones of the times nor can he for his Bones his Heart his Heart is broken 1. He is sorry for that he feels and finds in himself a Pravity of Nature I told you before he is sensible of it he sees it he feels it and here I say he is sorry for it 'T is this that makes him call himself wretched Man 't is this that makes him loath and abhor himself 't is this that makes him Blush blush before God and be Ashamed Rom. 7. 24. Job 42. 5 6. Ezek. 36. 31. He finds by Nature no Form nor Comllness in himself but the more he looks in the Glass of the Word the more Unhandsom the more Deformed he perceiveth Sin has made him Every Body sees not this therefore every Body is not sorry for it But the broken in Heart sees that he is by Sin corrupted marr'd full of Lewdness and Naughtiness he sees that in him that is in his Flesh dwells no good thing and this makes him sorry yea it makes him sorry at Heart A Man that has his Bones broken finds he is spoil'd marr'd disabled from doing as he would and should at which he is grieved and made sorry Many are sorry for actual Transgressions because they do oft bring them to shame before Men but but few are sorry for the Defects that Sin has made in Nature because they see not those Defects themselves A Man cannot be sorry for the sinful Defects of Nature till he sees they have rendred him contemptible to God nor is it any thing but a sight of God that can make him truly see what he is and so be heartily sorry for being so Now mine Eyes see thee said Job now I abhor my self Woe is me I am undone said the Prophet for mine Eyes have seen the Lord the King. And 't was This that made Daniel say his Comliness in him was turned into Corruption For he had now the Vision of the Holy One Job 42. 6. Isa. 6. 1 2 3 4 5. Dan. 10. 8. Visions of God break the Heart because by the sight the Soul then has of his Perfections it sees its own infinite and unspeakeakable Disproportion because of the Vileness of its Nature Suppose a Company of ugly uncomly deformed Persons dwelt together in one house and suppose that they never yet saw any Man or Woman more than themselves that were Arrayed with the Splendors and Perfections of Nature These would not be capable of comparing themselves with any but themselves and consequently would not be affected and made sorry for their uncomly natural Defections But now bring them out of their Cells and Holes of Darkness where they have been shut up by themselves and let them take a view of the Splendor and Perfections of Beauty that are in others and
with those six or seven signs of a Broken and a Contrite Heart which there I have according to the word of God given to thee for that end and deal with thy Soul impartially about them 2. Or which may and will be great help to thee if thou shalt be sincere therein namely to betake thy self to the search of the Word especially where thou readest of the Conversion of men and try if thy Conversation be like or has a good resemblance or oneness with theirs But in this have a care that thou dost not compare thy self with those good Folk of whose Conversion thou readest not or of the breaking of whose Heart there is no mention made in Scripture for all that are recorded in the Scripture for Saints have not their Conversion as to the manner or nature of it recorded in the Scripture 3. Or else Do thou consider truly of the true signs of Repentance which are laid down in Scripture for that is the true effect of a Broken Heart and of a wounded Spirit And for this see Mat. 3. 5 6. Luke 18. 13. Chap. 19. 8. Act 2. 37 38 39 40 c. Chap. 16. 29 30. Chap. 19. 18 19. 2 Cor. 7 8 9 10 11. 4. Or else Take into Consideration how God has said they shall be in their Spirits that he intends to Save And for this read these Scriptures 1. That in the One and Thirtieth of Jeremiah They shall come with Weeping and with Supplication will I l●●d them c. V. 9. 2. Read Jer. 50. 4 5. In those days and at that time the Children of Israel shall come they and the Children of Judah together going and weeping They shall go and seek the Lord their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying Come and let us joyn our-selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten 3. Read Ezek. 6. 9. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the Nations whither they shall be carried Captives because I am broken with their who● rish Heart which have departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their Idols And they shall loath themselves for the Evils which they have committed in all their Abominations 4. Read Ezek. 7. 16. But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the Mountains like Doves of the Valleys all of them Mourning every one for his Iniquity 5. Read Ezek. 20. 43. And there shall ye remember your ways and all your doings wherein ye have been defiled and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have commited 6. Read Ezek. 36. 31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your Iniquities and for your Abominations 7. Read Zech. 12. 10. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and of Suplications And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born Now all these are the fruits of the Spirit of God and of the Heart when it is Broken Wherefore Soul Take notice of them and because these are Texts by which God promiseth that those whom he saveth shall have this Heart this Spirit and these holy effects in them Therefore consider again and examine thy self whether this is the state and condition of thy Soul. And that thou mayst do it fully consider again and do thou 1. Remember that here is such a sence of Sin and of the irksomness thereof as maketh the man not only to abhor that but himself because of that This is worth the noting by thee 2 Remember again That here is not only a Self-abhorrence but a sorrowful kind mourning unto God at the consideration that the Soul by Sin has affront●d contemned disregarded and set at nought both God and his holy Word 3. Remember also That here are Prayers and Tears for Mercy with desires to be now out of love with Sin for ever and to be in Heart and Soul firmly joyned and knit unto God. 4. Remember also That this People here spoken of have all the way from Satan to God from Sin to Grace from Death to Life scattered with Tears and Prayers with Weeping and Supplication They shall go weeping and seeking the Lord their God. 5. Remember that these People as Strangers and Pilgrims do are not ashamed to ask the way of those they meet with to Zion or the Heavenly Countrey whereby they confess their ignorance as became them their desire to know the way to Life yea thereby they declare that there is nothing in this world under the Sun or this side Heaven that can satisfie the longings the desires and cravings of a Broken and Contrite Spirit Reader be advised and consider of these things seriously and compare thy Soul with them and with what else thou shalt find here written for thy Conviction and Instruction Fourthly If a broken Heart and a contrite Spirit be of such esteem with God Then this should encourage them that have it to come to God with it I know the GREAT encouragement for men to come to God is for that there is a Mediator between God and men the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. ● 5. This I say is the GREAT Encouragement in its place there is none but that but there are other Encouragements subordinate to that and a Broken and a Contrite Spirit is one of them this is evident from several places of Scripture Wherefore thou that canst carry a Broken Heart and a Sorrowful Spirit with thee when thou goest to God tell him thy Heart is wounded within thee that thou hast Sorrow in thy Heart and art Sorry for thy Sins but take heed of Lying Confess also thy Sins unto him and tell him they are continually before thee David made an argument of these things when he went to God by Prayer O Lord saith he Rebuke me not in thine Anger neither chasten me in thy sore displeasure But why so O says he thine Arrows stick fast in me and thy hand ●resseth me sore There is no soundness in my Flesh because of thine Anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my Sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long For my loins are filled with a lothsom disease and there is no soundness in my Flesh. I am feeble and sore broken I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee My heart panteth my