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A49954	Cor humiliatum & contritum a sermon preached at S. Pauls Church London, Nov. 29, 1663 / by Richard Lee ... ; wherein was delivered the profession of his judgement against the Solemn league and covenant, the late King's death, &c.	Lee, Richard, 1611-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing L888; ESTC R19629	22,952	50

contrition There is that holy Candor and Ingenuity in a broken heart that it will not keep in it sin to save its credit and so come under the curse 28. Prov. 13. He that hides his sin shall not prosper Nimis perversè se amat qui alios vult errare ut error suus lateat He loves himself too perversly that had rather that others should still wander then his own strayings should be observed The Saints of God have ever been of another mind Hence Moses Unbelief Davids Blood-guiltiness Jeremies Impatience Jonahs Pettishness Pauls Persecutions are impartially recorded by their own Pens Take holy Job for an instance who about to make a solemn Protestation of his integrity 31. Job which is inseparable from contrition He doth it by recanting retracting his error and sins 33. v. If I have covered my transgression as Adam by hiding my iniquity in my Bosom c. First he would not hide his sins ut Adam ut homines so the Arab. version ut homo so Arias Montanus He would not hide them as Adam who sought a covering for his transgression Non quia nudus sed quia lapsas not because he was naked but because he was faln Nor as man or as men who use Palliations Expositions Evasions Non quia nudi sed quia lapsi not because they are innocent but because they are guilty He sits on the Dunghil opens his Ulcers and Sores freely and fully makes his confession strongly imagine you heard him Job 40.4 5. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth Once I have spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further chap. 42. at the 3. v. I uttered what I understood not at the 6. v. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ideirco reprobabo quod male dixi so Vatab. translates the Text. Wherefore I abhor my self Or I will reprobate what I have sinfully spoken Et rescipiscam I will repent or I will return to my self into the way whence I wandred In this sense resipiscere is frequently used by Tertul. and Lactantius for Repentance Yea I will repent saith Job in dust and ashes For prisco more in pulvere cinere sedebat paenitens so Drusius of old the penitent so Sate now Dicat unusquique quod velit let every man speak his pleasure I shall rather choose with Adam Moses and Job David Solomon who hath by his Book of Ecclesiastes testified his retractations to all the World and Manasses with Jer. and Jonas with Matthew Magdalene Peter Paul August Jerom. Anselm and Bernard I say I shall rather choose with all these blessed Saints and broken vessels of Election Confundi coram peccatoribus super terram Quam confundi coram Sanctis Angelis in coelo vel ubicunque Dominus voluerit judicium suum demonstrare by Confession to be shamed before Sinners on Earth then to be confounded before all the holy Angels in Heaven or before all the world at the day of Judgement For be we well assured that our iniquity will find us out yea and the punishment too 32. Numbers 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inveniet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuagint apprehendet Our iniquity will discover us and judgement will take hold on us Dabitis paenas pro eo But you will object Such as thus retract Object and recant their Errors and sin build again what they have destroyed and so make themselves Transgressors as S. Paul speaks 2 Gal. 18. I answer with S. Aug. In ipsum Paulum primitus hoc diceretur Answ This should first have been objected against S. Paul himself for Gal. 1. ult it is said He which persecuted us in time past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed And they glorified God in him Indeed Cum erubescit quisquam de proprie iniquitate poenitendo in melius commutatur When any shall take shame to themselves for their own sin repent and reform Ista confusio adducet gratiam gloriam This honest shame shall bring them both grace and glory For as he that hides his sin shall not prosper so he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy I was an obstinate Papist as any in England said B. Latimer in so much as when I commenced Batchelor in Divinity my whole position ran against Melancthon's Opinions To conclude then Irrideant nos fortes potentes saith St. Aug. Let the 99 just persons that need no repentance laugh and scorn us Nos inopes infirmi consitebimur tibi c. We the poor of the flock of contrite spirits will confess our sins to thee O Lord. Once more Irridiant nos arrogantes nondum salubriter prostrati ego tamen confitebor tibi dedecora mea Let the arrogant and such as never had the grace of a broken and contrite heart let such deride me saith Aug. I will with Lazarus full of sores lie at the beautifull gate of that God who is rich in mercy and confess my foulest iniquities to thee O my God Lastly A broken contrite spirit will be deeply affected as with the act of sin the guilt and the stain so with the scandal of it A scandal is a stone in the way at which a man stumbles fals and receives hurt in his body Scandalous sins are such as others stumble at fall and receive hurt by in their souls Sins are scandalous in respect of their Manner and Matter In respect of the Manner when committed deliberately and presumptuously In respect of the Matter when they are committed in materia gravi For all deliberate presumptuous sins are in their Matter and Nature hainous In sin there are four things considerable 1. The Act. 2. The Guilt 3. The Stain 4. The Scandal The Act is quickly over but the rest have long lives The Guilt that remains for ever if not taken away by Repentance and Faith in Christs bloud The Stain that continues when the guilt is pardoned Sanato vulnere manet cicatrix Though the wound be healed yet the scar abides as the infamy upon Jeroboam's name That he made Israel to sin Lastly Though the Persons of scandalous Sinners be gone long since yet not the hurt daily done by their example It is a Question in the Schools Whether the damned have their greatest punishment at first Some have determined it negatively and their Reason is Because they have not at their death finish'd all the mischief they will do For when their bodies are in their graves and their souls in Hell their sins are above ground and live in the memory of men and do daily mischief and will to the worlds end Therefore as the hurt of their bad example encreaseth so doth their punishment Whether the pain of the damned be thus encreased I know not but sure I am mens sins and ill examples may be above ground and do hurt when they themselves are under ground and turn'd to ashes Wo then to the World because of

any service any Sacrifice yea it is all Sacrifice God will not despise but own and honour a contrite Spirit because it is very gracious and amiable Tricameratum it is Avicenna's word wherein you have not the three Persons personally but the Love of the Father the Grace of the Son and the Renovation of the holy Ghost mystically Hence Cor Pauli Cor Christi Chrysost the Heart of Paul is the Heart of Christ This broken contrite Spirit in the purpose and preparation of it is Amor Dei the Love of God in the inspiration and infusion of it it is Donum Dei the Gift of God in the comforts of it it is Osculum Dei the Kiss of God It is no chance-Gift inter missilia Fortunae as that Excellent Prelate speaks D. B. B. E. but God's choice Gift In other blessings God kisseth us sleeping we know not how we come by them but this is given non dormientibus sed vigilantibus not to them that sleep but to those that watch and weep cry and wait for it But more particularly The broken contrite Spirit is gracious and very amiable For You have in it all the lineaments of the new Creature the new Birth the Divine Nature 1. Conviction 2. Compunction 3. Conversion See all drawn to the life in Primitiis Evangelii in the first famous Conversion wrought by the Apostles in the Christian Church the Pattern and great Exemplar of all Conversions to the World's end There was Conviction 2. Acts 36. Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Compunction 37. v. And when they heard this they were prickt at their heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if the points of so many poisoned daggers or scorpions stings had been struck into every part of their hearts at once in the cruellest manner imaginable so the word imports Conversion 38. For they Repented and were Baptized c. The Hebrew calls Repentance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and we Conversion the main joynt of Repentance which implyes not only an aversion from sin a dying to it in the passions of the mind Fear Grief and Hatred but a turn in the Will to God Not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a grief for what is past but a change of mind for the time to come not grief of mind only so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sometimes taken but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which implyes a grief for sin mixt with Faith which is repentance to Salvation never to be repented of 2 Cor 7.10 Whose rise is godly sorrow whose nature is a purpose to sin no more whose fruit is amendment of life A Contrite spirit is gratious Lastly because there is in it the Evidence of God's immediate Omnis potent and Efficacious working upon the Soul not in a way of Providence or Justice but in a way of Grace Vis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 regenerationis as the Renown'd Mead hath it 36. Eze. 26. I will take away the heart of stone and I will give a heart of flesh 1. A very stone made flesh A Monster of Vice a Miracle of Virtue Monstrum vitii Miraculum virtutis This is modus rei 2. I will do it this is modus dicti I will take away the heart of stone stupid senseless rebellious and I will give a heart of flesh tender pliable flexiible to every good word and work Hitherto you have had these Sacrifices naked and open 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the skin pul'd of and the Intrails expos'd to open view I now come to the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2.15 His rightly dividing the word and giving every one their due General discourses are like the beams of the Sun dispers't in the air which may warm us a little and that 's all but close application is like the Burning glass which gathers all the Beams into one point or Centre fastens them on the Soul and so Verba not inflantia but inflammantia kindle and enflame Then learn here from this Doctrine of a Broken and contrite Spirit What the issue of sin in the end will be It may be sweet in thy Mouth but it will be bitter in thy Bowels The little pleasure sin brings thee in if it be not thy bane thou must vomit it up again and that may tear and torture thy very Soul 2. Jer. 19. It is an evil thing and bitter to provoke the Lord. Extrema gaudii luctus occupat the end of that mirth is mourning If ever God save any of your Souls it will be by brokenness and Contrition If ever God by his Grace come to dwell in any of your hearts he will make a forcible entrance Consider how dreadful the condition of despair is if these whom God intends Mercy Grace and Peace to be so broken and beaten so bruis'd and ground to powder what are their racks and tortures their Tribulation and Anguish Whom God strikes and wounds with the sight and sence of his wrath as most deserved and due to them as most unavoidable and unsupportable by them These racks and tortures are Primitiae infernalis flammae the first fruits of the infernal flame the greatest part of the torment of the damn'd in Hell where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out Quid patientur quos reprobet si sic cruciantur quos amat saith Gregor If David's bones were so broken for his adultery what furious reflexions What a Hell was in Achitophels conscience for his Perjury Treachery and Treason How did his sorrow rise into horror and that horror into despair God grant that both you and I may know what this despair is rather by relation then experience See the blessed estate of those whose hearts and Spirits are broken and Contrite They will be preserved from sin and the sad effects of it and inabled to perform all duties acceptably 31. Jer. 18. I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself c. I have surely heard i. e. hearing I have heard heard attentively so as to regard c. This will make the soul patient under the greatest affliction and thankful for the least mercy glad with the woman of Canaan for a Crum taste with the Church a little honey in an Ocean of Gall Lamen 3.22 It it the Lords mercies we are not consumed Their Obedience will be highest when their Condition is lowest and their hearts lowest when their condition in the world is highest This brokenness and Contrition will make the heart the only fit soyl for the word of God to take root in and bring forth thirty sixty and a hundred fold The hearts of the Corinthians were first tables of flesh then written upon by the spirit of God and so declared to be the Epistle commendatory of Christ seen and read of all men 2 Cor. 3.3 I might here demonstrate the Vast odds betwixt