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spirit_n	contrite_a	humble_a	revive_v	5,567	5	11.6295	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97070	Cordifragium, or, The sacrifice of a broken heart, open'd, offer'd, own'd, and honour'd. Presented in a sermon at St Pauls London, November 25. 1660. By Francis Walsall D.D. chaplain to his Majesty, and prebendary of St. Peters Westminster.	Walsall, Francis, d. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing W625; Thomason E1081_4; ESTC R203982	34,513	56

heart who healeth the broken in heart and giveth Ps 1●● 30. them medicine to heale their sicknes But I will not anticipat an application with a preface only give me leave to breath out a short ejaculation and so to our work the Lord give us broken hearts break us that we may be broken and breake us that we may not be broken and give us contrite spirits that we be not reserved to fall under the weight of that sad and antient Porphesie Conterendj * Polychr●●icon that we may be contriti that we be not Conterendi But to the words Beza and our learned Fuller approves his judgment sayes that the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fulleri miscell p. 224. lib. 3. 2 Tim. 2. 15. rightly dividing the word of truth is a metaphore that alludes to the Priests dividing the Sacrifices under the Law and probably enough because in preaching the word the Minister chooseth and singles out a particular Text out of all the ●●ock of Scripture to be consecrated for that use as a Sacrifice by dividing it part for God and part for his people and to the people their due share in their due season therefore the businesse of my Text being Sacrifices I shall open it as they used to open the Sacrifices under the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the meaning of St Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 4. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All things are naked and open so we read it but it is rather opened as they used to open the Sacrifices of the Law throwgh the middle from the neck downward as we see it cleared in the practise of Abraham Gen. 15. 10. And he took the Sacrifices and divide them in the mid'st and layd each piece one against another and this beareth a huge proportion with our Text for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an iron sinew in theneck and a stone in the heart speak the same thing in Scripture and must be both alike Sacrificed and broken so shall I Sacrifice my Text by so breaking of it that is just in the midst into two parts and lay the the parts one against another thus The two parts are 1. Sacrifices offered 2. Sacrifices owned and honoured 1. Sacrifices offered the Sacrifices of God that is offered to God are a broken spirit and a contrite heart 2. Sacrifices owned and honoured a broken heart and contrite spirit for I must put both into both God will not despise 1. Sacrifices offered the Sacrifices offered to God a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart here are two participles in the Hebrew which make two weighty Epithets upon which lies the whole stresse and burden of the Text and they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one signifies to break whole things all of a piece and the other signifies to breake hard things all to pieces that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word of a higher streine to break a thing to powder So Psal 94. 5. They break in pieces thy people O Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Job 19. 2. How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Atteretis me will ye grinde me to powder So that put both together and you have here Heart a whole Heart broken in pieces and a Heart a hard Heart beaten to powder things must be whole or they cannot be broken to pieces and they must be hard or they cannot be beaten to powder so that this breaking this beating speakes violence the macerations and martyrizations of repentance that holy violence and force that Heaven is taken with Therefore a Heart so used is called a broken and a contrite heart Thus it signifies a soul truly humbled beaten and broken and ground to powder in this sense it is applyed to Christ Es 53. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief the Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to break him in pieces thus in the same sense you finde contrite and humble put together twice in one Text Es 57. 15. For thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the spirit of the contrite ones A broken heart then is a spirit duly and deeply humbled under the sense of sin for the School gives a distinction between Attrition and Contrition the object of Attrition is the evil of punishment but the object Contrition is the evil of sin So that a broken heart is a heart bleeding under the sight and sense of and sorrow for sin 2. Part is the Sacrifices owned and honoured and to this you rise in state by three stepps 1. Sacrifices 2. Sacrifices of God 3. Such Sacrifices as God will not despise 1. Sacrifices in the Plural Number all Sacrifices as if all other sacrifices were either nothing at all to this or without this or all in all in this of a broken heart when we beate or breake hard things into minute parts or powder we call it the flower of it a broken heart is slos cordis the flower of the heart and that is the Flower of all Sacrifices and the finer the flower that is the more beaten or broken the fitter offering for God Thus truly pulvis sanctus is pulvis cardia●us the Heart powder is the holy powder Besides the ordinary Frankincense for common uses the finest and fittest for Gods Rev. 2 17. 1 Pet. 3. 41. service and sacrifices the Physicians call Manna thuris the Broken and Contrite heart is Manna cordis the Hidden Manna of the Hidden man of the heart the Broken heart is not only for all services but for all Sacrifices nay is all Sacrifices Every ragg every shiver every graine every atome of the Broken Heart is a whole burnt offering nay a hecatomb of Sacrifices 2. The satcrifices of God it is a frequent Scripture-phrase to raise the price of things of excellence and eminence above others by adding the name of God to them as the waters of God the mountain of God the Cedars of God and so here the Sacrifices of God that is the most excellent sacrifices We have it in the new Testament The Peace of God that is such a Peace as do's not only passe other Peaces but all understanding Phil. 4. 7. But I conceive there is more in it than so the sacrifices of God that is the sacrifices that God do's most owne and honour and is most interested in as if he had said all other sacrifices are but the sacrifices of men Bullocks and Rammes Sheepe and Goats Turtles and Pigeons Beasts and Birds Fruits and Flowers these were but the sacrifices of men but my son give me thy heart sais God that is the Prov. 23. 26.

life it self slide from him with no more disturbance and with more comfort and contentment than Passengers in a Boat upon the Thames see the great City and the fair houses glide from them when their business is at Whitehall and Westminster the City and Court of the great King His soul is landed in Heaven already It was rarely spoken by that old Souldier of Henry the 4th of France who having received his deaths wound in one of his many battles when he was above 80. years old and his friends coming about him to condole and comfort him against the fear of death what saies he have I lived above fourscore years and do you think I do not know how to die a quarter of an hour he can die any day every day 2 Cor. 25. 31. that dies daily his heart will never be broken for leaving the world at his death whose heart hath bin broken in leaving the world in his life 3. I have nothing to do now but only to give you two words 1. To quicken you to get your hearts broken if they be not 2. To caution you that you be sure they are broken 1. That you would get your hearts broken if they be not and that for two short Reasons 1. Is from the Text that this is the only sacrifice that God will not despise this he ownes and loves above all others at least all others for and in this All sacrifices and services without this are but broken sacrifices broken services A sacrifice without a heart was a Prodigy and without a broken heart is a Profanation that which break●●● makes us Vulnus opem tulit our wounds blee●●●●am 2. A broken and contrite heart gives you a key into Gods presence-chamber you have a Patent for it under Gods hand and seal will you see the Charter Esay 57. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and the holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the pir it of the humble and to revive the spirit of the contrite ones Here is oyle of Gladnesse indeed but it is a broken vessel that must receive it a broken and humble heart 2. To caution as well as quicken you that you give not over the work till you be sure your hearts are broken I shall hint four Reasons 1. Because your hearts are deceitfull and apt to put a cheate upon you especially in this duty this irksome duty of searching your own hearts to be satisfied that they are really broken you had need call a Parliament a great Councel of all the facultys in the polity of man together for this scrutiny and be assured thou shalt find thy heart as full of tricks and juggles to keep thee off from calling this Councel as the Church of Rome put upon the Christian Princes of that age about calling that councel which proved the Councel of Tre●t It was a good time before his holiness would be preswaded the Church or Court of Rome needed reformation there was omnia benè Therefore a Councel would be as needlesse as physick to a sound body but at last to stopp the mouth of the loud clamours of the world a councel is yeilded to but the time and place kept them in many years debate to while out the time till they hoped their zeal might cool but at length called it was but what was the Issue of it why that councill that was designed for a scourge of the Church and Court of Rome proved a successful engine of its advnacement such is commonly the result of such great and tumultous assemblies as they are managed by parts and partyes So their ordinary product are the dictates of wit and power for the most part to the raising of the worst if not to the ruine of all as we have but too lately seene but to apply it to our purpose Thou wouldest faine bring thy heart to the test to try whether it be that broken and mortified humble thing it pretends to Never expect to find it willing to stand the triall What to be cut and cauterized to be prob'd and tented to run through the macerations and martrizations of a thorough examination It will never endure it when it comes to the push it will give thee the slip if thou doest not looke to it it will use all the petty arts imaginable to keep it self from gaging and garbling it will tell thee thy heart is a good heart if you can let it alone there is many a worse heart that passes for a better is any man but you so nice and scrupulous and so cruell to his own flesh which he should love and cherish as to rake and grable Eph 5. in his own heart and to seek that in it which thou wouldest be sorry to finde and if thou doest not finde it thou wilt be as sorry thou hast searched it come let it alone man thy heart is as good a heart as others are but suppose all this fine deluding Rhetorick will not doe thou seest a necessity of searching thy heart to the quick and art resolved to set upon the work see if the Devil and thine own heart have not some trick in lavender to divert thy most serious intentions with some plausible pretences or other as sicknesse business company Pol me occidistis amici is too often true in this case of breaking the heart from breaking the heart But to make short work with it as thou must doe if thou wilt make any work at all If God at last smite thee by his word or sword that thou beginst to reflect upon thy self and say sure I am not in the way to Heaven that streight and narrow way I am not so strict as I should be for all my heart flatters me thus And therefore nothing shall keepe me from searching Then look for the grandest cheat of all then have a care thy treacherous heart doe not make thee believe that every little qualm of conscience is a heart-breaking every sleight touch at a Sermon every heart-ach for any affliction thou fearest or feelest and when all is done have a care that thy heart does not out-wit thee at last and that that meanes which thou usest as the most proper expedient to break thy heart doe not harden it more O thou dost not know thine own heart man It is a cunning and a cosening piece of flesh you have a strange example of this if you need any in Hazael 2 Kin. 11. 12. 13. Elisha looked upon him stedfastly till he was ashamede and the man of God wept and Hazael said why weeps my Lord and he answered because I know the evils that thou shalt doe unto the Children of Israel And when he had told him all his cruelties he should be guilty of What says Hazael Is thy servant a dogg He would not believe his heart was so base and yet the man that was so much