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A08804	The broken heart: or, Davids penance fully exprest in holy meditations upon the 51 Psalme, by that late reverend pastor Sam. Page, Doctour in Divinity, and vicar of Deptford Strond, in the countie of Kent. Published since his death, by Nathanael Snape of Grayes Inne, Esquire.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.; Snape, Nathaniel.	1637 (1637)	STC 19089; ESTC S113764	199,757	290

joy is not yet full 2 That the knowledge of such conversation here would adde to their joy 3 That God is free to fill up their measure how farre and in what kinde Ignoramus we know not 3 Gratum in instituto acceptable in the thing it selfe No comfort to piety or charity like to communication The liberall man is in his trim quando distribuit when hee gives in such chests reponit thesauros Christ layes up his treasures It is my joy to say my bread my wooll my friends my purse my hand my letter made such a one In charitie aurum m●um in altari Domini my gold upon Gods Altar Of all the friends we have we esteeme them best that have converted us from sinne to righteousnesse by reforming the errors of our judgement or the vices of our conversation He that of a poore man makes me rich he fitteth me for this world He that of a wicked lewd lascivious man makes me godly fitteth me for this life and that which is to come for godlinesse hath the promises of both We hold our calling and meanes by this service we doe it ex officio out of duty We lift up our voyces like trumpets to tell the house of Iacob their sinnes not to shame but ad dignam emendationem to am●nd them No calling requireth more integrity more fidelity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is sufficient none hath a greater reward our reward is with God yea God is our exceeding great reward We have the office and name of Iesus servabis teipsum quite audiunt thou shalt save thy selfe and them that heare thee They that turne many to righteousnesse shall shine like starres he telleth the number of these starres and calleth them all by their names 4 Gratum Deo acceptable to God he is emblemed in the father of the Prodigall Bring my sons from farre and my daughters from the ends of the earth Good Ministers undergoe a great hazard in this service for if any perish in his sinne for want of our warning his bloud is upon us Ob. But doth not David presume to promise this Sol No our labour is not in vaine in the Lord for 1 If some sinners like the high way non recipiunt bonum receive not the good as they that hate to be reformed sinne raigning in them crying Nolumus scientiam viarum tuarum non possunt audiri strepitus in domo We desire not the knowledge of thy wayes they cannot bee heard there is a noyse in the house Christ would gather them noluerunt they would not 2 If some like stony ground receive seed and it wither for want of moysture 3 If some receive it with joy and the cares or pleasures of life choake it 4 Yet there is some good ground which cultured and well ploughed and stirred by the sharpe coulter of the law watered with the teares of their teachers and the dew of heavenly grace will take the seed and bring forth fruit Saint Ambrose to Monica Saint Augustines mother impossibile est ut filius harum lachrymarū pereat it is impossible that the sonne of these teares should perish True it is many conne●s little thanke for labouring their conversion yea the● are angry with us for it Thou thankest him that putteth thy stray beast into the way why art thou offended with him qui teipsum vellet reducere aberrantem which would bring thee thy selfe backe going astray Bonam vis domum uxorem bonam cur non teipsum bonum thou wouldst have a good house a good wife why not thy selfe good Let us cut a passage through all impediments with zeale and faith and love beleeving that this good worke cannot miscarry True it is that good workes exact our uttermost of performance propter se for themselves successus est extra nos the successe is out of our power yet our hope and faith may cheerefully look to the successe Davids faith hath ground 1 From the fitnesse of him to teach 2 From the acceptablenesse of the worke 3 From the dignity of the subject vias tuas thy wayes 4 From the auxiliarie cooperation of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fellow-workers with God From this passage observe God hath sundry wayes to teach 1 By Catechisme so Lois and Eunice did teach Pauls Timothy The Creed oratio dominica lex Lords prayer the Law Three Sermons teaching credenda petenda agenda things to be beleeved to be asked to be done 2 By reading the Word these are sure oracles able to make thee wise to salvation Moses of old time hath in every Citie them that preach him seeing he is read in the Synagogue every Sabbath day 3 By Sermons giving the sense of the word dividing and applying it aright Where able men are wanting the Church provideth Homilies profitable In Conc. Vasensi Anno 444. Si presbyter infirmitate prohibente non potuerit pr●dicare Sanctorum patrum Homiliae à Diaconis recitentur If the Priest by reason of infirmity cannot Preach let the Homilies of the holy Fathers be repeated by the Deacons Some hold good preferments in the Church that are very sicke of an impotency to that service these have this helpe Preaching learnedly and conscionably by laboured Sermons hath ever had great honour and hath great efficacie but Cavete quomodo audiatis take heed how ye heare There may be danger in the failing of the Preacher in judgement or discretion For some vent their fancies for truth their owne selfe flatteries for the spirit of consolation their owne furies for zeale their owne spleene for reprehension and turne the bread of life to gravell Try the spirits si ex Deo if they be of God as they of Berea Scrutamini Scripturas search the Scriptures 4 Here is another kinde of teaching when converted sinners turne teachers This is the rich mans suit si unus ● mortuis if one from the dead Benhadads servants shewed comfort to their drooping Master saying We have heard that the Kings of Israell are mercifull men If one of them could have said it by any experience or a King in his case had found it so how had he comforted him David could say Dicam quid fecit animae meae I will tell you what he hath done for my soule I was in misery and he helped me I sinned foully provokingly scandalously I continued in sinne impenitently At last I was chidden I was sorry I was ashamed I cryed God mercy he heard me forgave me and received me to favour They that speake from hearing reading or contemplation speake not so to the heart as they that have had experience Give me a grieved man comforted let him tell his owne tale There is no oratorie no varnish or guilded speech wrought and laboured by the sweate of art that may compare with his plaine tale He hath cor in lingu● his heart in his tongue no musicke like his voluntarie David will loose no time Then will I teach then when I heare of

fall againe for they that are led by the spirit of God are the sonnes of God therefore David petitioneth God here for a constant spirit such as may give him wisedome to resent a temptation and holinesse to hate it faith to resist and fortitude to overcome it 3 He desireth it by way of renovation the Apostles counsell is but be you transformed by the renewing of your minde Little or no externall difference doth appeare for the time betweene one elect and a reprobate David being guilty to himselfe of this desertion desireth the stirring up of the gift of the holy Ghost and renewing of the power thereof within him Vide ordinem primò cor munduns secundò spiritum rectum requirit prius enim omnis à corde vitiorum foeditas eliminanda est ut omne quod agitur aut dicitur expurae intentionis origine emanet consider the order first he desireth a cleane heart secondly a right spirit For first the foulenesse of sinne is to be taken from the heart that whatsoever is done or spoken may flow from the fountaine of a pure intention for the holy Ghost will not dwell in an uncleane heart but when wee have purged our consciences from dead workes he saith Here will I dwell for ever for I have a delight herein There be two faculties in the soule of man first understanding secondly will The understanding in a regenerate man may be darkened for a time and he falling into sinne may be beside himselfe for sinne is a kinde of madnesse the worst kinde It is said of the prodigall in his great famine reversus ad se returning to himselfe he said Ibo ad patremmeum I will goe to my Father The will may be corrupted by a strong temptation and so way made for the perpetration of sinne Sometimes the understanding breakes forth like lightening and discerneth the fault to convince the will of sinne This wee call the conscience which is awaked of purpose to detect and chide our sinfull aberrations But when God hath sufficiently expressed to us our weakenesse and p●one disposition to evill and his owne long suffering and patience he stirreth up his gift in us or in Saint Pauls phrase he revealeth Iesus Christ in us and this we call renewing of the spirit this cleareth our understanding and reformeth our will and mends all The petitions of David for holinesse of life thus opened 1 We observe the manner how David desireth to be repaired being by sinne so ruined 1 In his understanding in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisedome for repentance must beginne in intellectu recto in the understanding rightly informed this is our light and if we walke without this wee know not whither we goe The haughty policy of Rome to keep her children darke doth hinder both the finding of the good way and the going on in it so our ingression and progression both hindered we seek heaven darkelings God hath sent wisedome abroad to utter her voyce to call an audience to instruct men in the waies of life to escape the pathes of death Christ is made to us of God wisedome 2 He desireth of God the pardon of his sinnes which is no other but justification before him This is the washing and purging and blotting out of iniquities by him desired for wisedome to know our sinnes without justification by faith which apprehendeth the pardon of them were the broad way to despaire but being justified by faith we have peace with God and peace also in our owne consciences Christ is made unto us justification David leaves not here but 3 He desireth in this text the spirit of sanctification by which he may be renewed to holinesse to all pleasing of God And this is Christ also made to us for whom God justifieth them he sanctifieth Some have confounded these two graces of justification and sanctification and so commedled them as if they were all one and the same grace For the clearing whereof and to declare the difference betweene them understand 1 We are sinners and by faith in Christ we are justified and so the debt of our sinne discharged this is by the inherent righteousnesse of Christ imputed to us and it is the proper worke of the second person 2 By the holy Ghost applying this righteousnesse to us we are sanctified to rewnesse of life The first saveth us from hell the second seasoneth us for heaven David therefore addeth this suit for sanctification that being cleansed throughly from sinne he may become a new creature I may abridge all our learning in the schoole of Christ to this one lesson and comprehend totum hominis the whole of man in this short compend of dutie as the Apostle doth Circumcision profiteth nothing uncircumcision hindereth nothing all that God requireth of us is that wee be new creatures leaving off and laying aside the old man and renewed in spiritu mentis in the spirit of our mindes wee are never complete penitents till we have this spirit of sanctification in some measure It is the hardest worke that is accomplished in us because our naturall corruption and the manifold temptations amongst which we live and the sensuall delight which we take in sinne doe sow our hearts all over with tares and leave no roome for better seed To root out these is one labour to proseminate grace is another yet we neglect the labour of our sanctification as if it were a worke which we could doe at a very short warning and too many doe leave it to their death beds And another impediment is that many upon some good motions of the spirit some flashes of piety and scintillations of zeale doe overweene their possession of this spirit Me thinkes if they did examine their hearts by this text here is enough in it to reveale any man to himselfe and to tell him si habeat hunc spiritum if he hath this spirit 1 Let him examine his heart and spirit within him to see if there be truth there wisedom for many faire seemings and outsides of godlinesse are put on whereby we deceive others and flatter our selves quite out of the way of salvation therefore try if all be sound and sincere within 2 Let him enquire of this heart si cor novum if it bee a new heart we may soone know that si canticum novum si novitas vitae if there be a new song if newnesse of life It is not a new dresting and trimming up of the old heart in a new fashion that will serve it must be all new and that may be discerned in our thoughts in our words in ou● workes and wayes for if we abhorre and forsake our former sinnes and embrace better courses this makes faith of a good change 3 If it be a constant spirit that holdeth out to the end cheerefully and unweariedly we may conclude comfortably that our old heart is gone and we have a new in place thereof VERSE 11. Cast me not