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A96622 Cor concussum & contritum: or, A present for Jehova; shewing the [brace] nature, excellency, acts, [brace] of a broken heart; [brace] and also the marks to know, and means to procure a broken and contrite heart. / by George Willington ... Willington, George. 1670 (1670) Wing W2801; ESTC R186605 15,028 33

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his body in Uriah's Bed and imbrewed his hand in Uriah's blood From the first Verse to the 18 he prayes for himself From the 18. verse to the end of the Psalme he prayed for the Church In praying for himself he desired to be washed and cleansed and purged Vers 2. Wash me throughly from my Wickedness and cleanse me from my sin Vers 7. Purge me with Hysope and I shall be clean Wash me and I shall be whiter than Snow q. d. Saith Junius Wash me more purge me more cleanse me more in the Merits of ‖ 1 Joh. 1.7 Heb. 9.14 Christ's blood from the guilt and from the filth of all my Transgressions Then will I teach Transgressors thy wayes and Sinners shall be Converted unto thee vers 13.9 q.d. O God if thou wilt shew mercy to my poor Soul I that have had my * vers 12. Bones broken shall be an Instrument ‖ 2 Cor. 1.4 to bind up others and will tell thy People that fear thy Name (a) Mal. 3.16 What (b) Psal 66.16 great things thou hast done for my poor Soul Further it will be an occasion of God's glory when he should come to the Lord and offer the Sacrifices of Praise not Tipical but Real not Legal but Evangelical Sacrifices Cor concussum Contritum A Broken and Contrite Heart The Sacrifices of God are a Broken Spirit a Broken and Contrite Heart O God thou wilt not dispise The Text contains two general Propositions 1. Affirmative The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit 2. Negative A broken and contrite Heart O God thou wilt not despise In the double Proposition you have 1. The Subject Cor concussum contritum A broken and contrite Heart 2. The Predicate Sacrificia Dei The Sacrifices of God In further handling of these words I shall propose and follow this my wonted Method To speak to you 1. By way of Explication 2. By way of Confirmation 3. By way of Application 1. By way of Explication Heart and Spirit by the former is not meant that fleshly part which is in our breasts which we commonly call so though sometimes the word is so taken in Scripture 2 Kings 2.24 but by both is here meant that which the Scripture sometimes terms (c) Col. 3.16 the Inner-man sometimes the Hidden man (d) 1 Pet. 3 4. of the Heart and that which we ordinarily call the Soul with all it's Powers and Faculties By Spirits here is meant the Seat of sorrow the Spirit * Ephes 4.23 of the mind Doct. If any man will offer acceptable Sacrifice to God let him prepare the Spirit of his mind God himself is a Spirit and they that Worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth John 4.24 Psal 51. v. 6. He loves Truth in the inward affections Corpora fecit propter Spiritus Ideoque etiam spiritualia non corporea querit B. Cooper Super. loc saith a Learned Prelate He meant the bodies for the Spirits and therefore seeks he not bodily but Spiritual Worship Some there are Qui sua dant non Seipsos who offer to him not themselves Seipsos but that which is theirs but it is a blind folly to think thou canst please him when thou wilt not give the service of thy Heart and Spirit unto him Prov. 23. vers 26. Mi sili da mihi Cor tuum But lest we should think that every Spirit is acceptable What a broken Heart is he adds this Epethet Broken and Contrite A broken heart is such a heart that is humbled through a sight and sense of sin and wounded and prick't with the fear of God's anger grieving for offending so good and so gracious a God 1. Bathing his eyes in Tears and melting his Soul into sorrow that ever he has offended so good a God that made him displeased so sweet a Saviour that redeemed him griev'd so Holy a Spirit as hath striven with him transgressed so Righteous a Law as was given to him broken so gracious a Covenant as was made with him begging Mercy and Pardon at the Throne of the Almighty's Grace with as much earnestness and importunity as the Hunger-bitten Beggar doth a Morsel of bread or the Malefactor a Psalm of Mercy This is that poor Spirit St. Mathew speaks (e) Mat. 5.3 of this is that Spirit that trembles at God's word which the Prophet Isaiah speaks (f) Isa 66.2 of this is that Heart-rent the Prophet Jonah speaks (g) Jona 2.12.13 of By the Prophet (h) Isa 42.3 and the Evangelist (i) Mat. 12.20 it 's compared to a bruised Reed it 's also in Scripture called a pricking (k) Acts 2.37 of the heart a melting (l) Nah 2.10 Psal 119.28 of the heart and such like All which import the inward unfeigned hearty sorrow which is in a penitent Soul for offending a good and a gracious God And he puts the word in the Plural Number Sacrificia the Sacrifices to shew that a Heart bruised and broken humbled and pricked Note in the sight and sense of sin is Instar Omnium instead of all all Sacrifice is nothing without it all sum'd up in it Let men offer what Sacrifices they will never so many never so costly never so excellent yet if this be wanting 't is but in vain God esteems not of it One broken Heart is more worth than a thousand Sacrifices of great price A man may offer many Sacrifices Pray much Preach much Hear much receive the Sacrament often and give all his goods to feed the Poor yet if there be not this broken Heart and contrite Spirit all 's in vain and to no (m) Psal 1. vers 11.12 13 14 15 16 17. purpose We cannot please God in any thing we do without a broken and contrite heart The Sacrifices of God * Chap. 66.24 The adding God's Name to any think in Scripture gives it an Emminency a Lustre a Glory above all other things As there 's mention made of the Waters (n) Psal 65.9 of God the Mountain (o) Exod. 3.1 of God the Trees (p) Psal 104 16. of God c. And in the New Testament the Peace (q) Phil. 4.7 of God c. And here in the Text The Sacrifices of God most rare and excellent Sacrifices such as God will not dispise A broken and a contrite Heart O God thou wilt not dispise The Phrase is low yet hath a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in it as 1 Thes 5.20 Dispise not Prephesyings and Heb. 12.5 Dispise not the Chastening of the Lord And so imports the choycest way of acceptation A broken and contrite Heart O God thou wilt not dispise thou dost love and like and art well pleased with a broken Heart This broken and contrite Heart is Sacrifice TO GOD most rare and excellent Sacrifice as the Mountains of God are high Mountains and the Cedars of the Lord are tall Cedars So a broken