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A93050	A broken heart, or The grand sacrifice. As it was laid out in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Beverley, in the East-riding of the county of Yorke, upon the monthly fast-day in Christmas-weeke, being Decemb. 28. 1642. By John Shawe, pastor of the church at Rotherham in the same county.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3027; Thomason E95_13; ESTC R12113	25,506	45

best and eminentest kind of Sacrifices as Mountaine of God Word of God people of God are the eminentest 3. Such as God will not despise i. e. Highly prize and value as 1 Thess 5. 20. Despise not i. e. Highly prize prophesing There remaines now one maine rubb or materiall Objection in the way to be removed and then I shall post apace and case you with what hast I may Object How can it be said that God required not neither delighted in sacrifices c. Seeing in the book of Leviticus in all ceremoniall Law God commanded them his people in the old Testament dayly offered them and God was well pleased with and accepted of them Heb. 11. 4. Gen. 8. 20. 21. Nay in the next Verse but one of this Psal David promiseth them verse 19. Ans To this our Divines doe as I conceive truly and fully give answer in two points First God never required Sacrifices comparatively i. e. In comparison of a broken heart it s nothing it s not to be compared with it thus Hos 6. 6. Mercy and not Sacrifice i. e. More or rather then Sacrifice thus Ioel 2. 13. Rend your hearts and not your garments i. e. Rather Secondly God never required them abstractly severed from a brokē heart the best Sacrifices without a broken heart God never delighted in thus Isai 1. 11 12 13. Who required your Burnt Offerings Sacrifices Sabbaths new Moones id est God never required or delighted in the best of these joyned with living in their sins vers 16. and severed from a broken heart thus concerning fasting see Isai 58. 4 5. I will slash our Text no longer as some doe their garments till more gay and lesse warme idem vitii habet nimia as nulla divisio this is not a day of curious dividing Texts much lesse Kingdomes but hearts only this sad day and time speaks no curious toyes but plaine dealing expect not much from me beloved that can performe but little at best especially on this suddaine chiefly now being from books and meanes thus torne distracted and divided Observe onely after our plaine homespun Countrey manner two plain truths from these two verses 1. from the 16. vers Obser That all the best outward dutyes and services such as God in his word requires if performed without a broken and contrite heart are no way delightsome but displeasing to God See for this Isai 1. 11 12 13 14. 66. 2 3. The Scripture mentions that the best duties and services done without a broken heart God abhors the dutyes Isa 1. 13. Psal 66. 18. Isa 66. 2 3. as if it had not been done Rom. 2. 28 29. 2 Abhors the person or doer of such services cals them dogs dirt chaffe c. 1 Cor. 10. 5. God was not pleased with such persons and the Pharisee for all his fasting more then ordinary and paying and praying went away not justified Luk. 18. 12 13 14. 3 Will damne them hereafter not withstanding all their duties Matth. 7. 21. Luk. 13. 27. All these can no more hinder the fire of Gods wrath from destroying Kingdomes or persons then a wispe of dry straw can stop fire from entring in at a gap Zach. 7. And not onely Scripture but all reason speakes this truth Reas 1. From the words of text because God never required them Prayer hearing keeping Sabbaths receiving Sacraments God indeed requires and enjoynes so did he Sacrifices but Prayer hearing receiving c. without a broken heart such God never required from the first of Genesis to the last of Revelation no one place ever required such Isai 58. 5. Ier. 7. 22 23. God never spake one word of such Reas 2. Because such empty services Hos 10. 1. as are without this brokennesse are in Scripture called duties and no duties services and no services as is said in the Riddle 2 Kings 17. in vers 33. Text saith those mongrel Samaritans feared God But next verse it saith they feared not God so 1 Sam. 28. 6. It s said that Saul enquired of the Lord yet 1 Chron. 10. 14. Saul enquired not of the Lord so in 1 Sam. 2. 23 24. with 3. 13. Thus ancients expound those places where it s said that the Jewes sought not God fasted not were not circumcised as Jer. 9. 25 26. c. Reas 3. Because such services are but bodily exercise 1 Tim. 4. 8. Now of your dearest Wife Child c. What do you care for the presence of their body though never so beautifull and pleasant formerly if it want a heart a soul no you say with Abraham let me bury my dead out of my sight no more doth God care for carcasses and rotten outsides of duties such Circumcision bodily only is nothing Rom. 2. 25 26. Ier. 9. 25 26. Reas 4. When men forme glorious outward services without broken hearts they pride themselves in and rest on them now resting upon duties upon the opus operatum or worke done is one kind of spiritual Idolatry I know no more reason that a man should worship the Crosse because Christ suffered on it then that a man should worship the Gibbet or Gallowes because his father or brother suffered thereon The Crosse was no piece of our redemption I know no more reason why I should worship an Image though never so gloriously guilded then that I should worship a dog or grasse that is the workmanship of man these of Gods hands and so more eminent and yet I know no more reason to rest on duties then either of the former Is there no kinde of Idolatrie but worshipping stocks and stones yes Ezek. 14. 7. witnesse second Commandement resting on Temple of the Lord Temple of the Lord God can abide nothing worse Ier. 7. 4. then pride in their performances this honey in their Sacrifices when they come with handfulls to God see Mat. 7. 21. 23. Luk. 13. 27 28. Pharisees did performe abundance of duties hecatombes of Sacrifices Matth. 6. 2. 5. 7. some say they prayed eight houres a day and yet except our righteousnesse go beyond theirs no heaven Matt. 5. 20. Reas 5. Breaking of the heart is the end of Sacrifices therefore better then they what are they without it Sacrifices not onely though mainly typed out that true propitiatory Sacrifice The Lambe of God that takes away sins of world but also shadowed out the cutting asunder and breaking of the heart of him that brought it renting of cloths noted renting of heart I see more Corne under my hand then I can thresh out speedily and yet your extraordinary occasions * Mr. Major sent us word that he had especial command about the Souldiers that day this day cause me cut short my distracted thoughts and therefore because I would mainly insist on the second point I must adjourne the other reasons and uses of this point and remaine your debter till another time only mentioning one or two of the heads and that but like Gideons Souldiers lap and

man and outward man body and soule inside and outside now the soule or inside according to its severall relations or Offices is called by severall names from its nature is called a spirit from its principall seate the heart from its enlivening the body the soule from one maine Office the conscience yet one and the same soule as one man is both Father Master Husband yet the same Man for I take not the spirit for the purer and more spirituall part of the soule viz. The understanding and the heart for the lower part or affections as some are pleased to speak Q. 2. How mans soule is said to be broken and contrite Ans This phrase implies two things First that by nature our hearts are flinty stony rocky hard need breaking such are we such are our Children by nature Ezek 11. 19. Secondly that our soules might be softned melted made contrite which consists mainely in five things First conviction when by the word outwardwardly and spirit inwardly God convinceth the soule of its corruption by natures cursed estate sinfull life perhaps at first chargeth the soule with some maine principall sin as here to David so with unchastity to Woman of Canaan Ioh. 4. 18. With persecution to Paul Acts 9. 4. And afterwards chargeth a whole swarme of sins of which he never dreamed himselfe guilty Rom. 7. 9. And cries with Nathan here thou art the man now he sees his money is but brasse he is not so good as he dreamed of before aske him are you a sinner yes God have mercy upon us we are all sinners why have you broken the Law or Gospell Else you have not sinned now come to particulars aske him have you broken the first Commandement no I am no Atheist have you broke the second No I am no Papist have you broken the third No all the Parish knowes I am no swearer have you broken the fourth No all my Neighbours know I am a good Church-man have you broken the fifth no I am as dutifull a Child as lives and so of the rest Come to the Gospell doe you believe yes and ever have ever since I was borne else pitty I should live and so indeed glories that he hath not sinned but now when God sets the spirituall part of the Law and his sins in order and danger before his face now he holds up his hands before Gods Bar and cries guilty Lord guilty every word hits a thumpe on his heart and he cries Oh! I have been a vile Traitor and Rebell against Heaven Acts 2. Strikes him dead Rom. 7. 9. 2. Soule afflication not onely conscience is convinced but his heart is pricked vexed afflicted Lev. 23 27. what law saith outwardly spirit of bondage fastens it close to the heart inwardly Rom. 8. 15. Pricked and pierced in heart Acts 2. 37 Cries out oh damned I feare damned Acts. 16. 30. What shall I doe is there no balme in Gilead The soule throbs and cries Oh what a foole was I What a good God have I angred what a sweete Christ abused what a pretious soule have I defiled What feareful danger have I incurr'd c. 3. Soule shaming smites upon his thigh Ier. 31. 19. How mad was I to trade and tug in these Brick kills of Egypt and preferre the puddles of Damaseus before silver streams of Iordan ashamed with Daniel c. 9 7. Blush with Ezra c. 9. 5. Confounded in himselfe with prodigall Lu. 15. 21. Grieved exceedingly Zach. 12. 10 11. 4. Soule hating and leaving sin or leaving it with hatred Many leave and part with their sins Phaltiel parted with his Wife Michol formerly maried to David when David sent for her be left her for feare of being killed by Abner but his teares at parting argued he did not loath her 2 Sam. 3. 16. Or as mariners in a storme cast their goods into the sea for feare but hate them not but now he lookes upon his lusts as a very death Rom. 7. 24. Casts them away with detestation Isa 30. 22. Ezek. 7. 16. Yee loath themselves for them Ezech. 20. 43. yea part with them non cum animo revertendi Hos 14. 8. 2 Cor. 7. 11. 5 Soule humility A lowlinesse in his owne eyes shall ever I be proud and puft up that have had such a heart such treachery against the King of Heaven when ever proud flesh ariseth his owne vilenesse keeps him low downe proud heart what thou proud that hast done thus and thus against thy good God Job 7. 20. 42. 5 6. Gen. 18. 27. thus that Manohester Saint and Martyr Bradford closeth up his sweet Letters miserrimus peccator a very hypocrite Iohn Bradford thus Saint Bernard quasi quoddam monstruminter filios hominum Sto. Thus Saint Paul lesse then the least of Saints the Centurion unworthy to come under thy roofe John Baptist unworthie to untie the latchet of his shoes thus Prodigall unworthy to be called thy servant c. Isa 57. 15. This short inch of time enforceth me to passe by the reasons which I had gleaned to assert this truth hoping at this time you will take God on his bare word and so I with what haste I can post to the Uses which are like to Moses Arke from within and before which let me now draw out to you 1 Aarons Rod of reproofe 2. The Pot of Manna 3. The two Tables And first of the last the Tables of direction Vse 1. These Tables plainly shew us what a heart every of us hath by nature viz. hard stony flinty needs melting grinding hewing unsensible inflexible compared to a stone that drops melt not to a dead man whom words move not Eph. 2. 1. Ezech. 11. 19. Aske your servant or child when you come from Church where was the Text what was the Sermon they scratch but not a word you would wonder how they could so quite forget it or how those flocks of divels that follow the hearer as birds the sower have stollen all Luke 8. 5. Let this Servant goe to Market aske him how this or that graine or goods sold what newes aske him of some play or shew he tels you a very ready tale oh the flinty mind to saving truths Offer a man 1000 pound a yeere to this or that convenient thing threaten him with great fines imprisonments death oh he strats runs shrinkes c. tell him of eternall glory in Heaven besides a hundredfold gaine here or of eternall garboiles and flames in Hell besides a hundredfold losse here all these never startle never move him oh the rockie heart to saving good such are you such thine by nature c. 2. This Table would have directed us in trying of our selves whether we were ever broken hearted or not and in this Table I had thought to have mentioned foure searching signes and trials but having much before me I must be faine at present to reprive this Vse 2. I come next then to the pot of Manna and it will helpe us the way