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<P><HI>Cor concu&s;&s;um &amp; Contritum:</HI> OR, A PRESENT FOR JEHOVA; Shewing The
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</LIST> of a broken Heart; And al&s;o the Marks to know, and Means to procure a Bro|ken and Contrite Heart. By <HI>George Willington,</HI> Preacher of God's Word, Formerly at <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> now of St. <HI>Georges</HI> in the County of <HI>Summer&s;et.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PSAL. 34.18.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The Lord is nigh unto all them that are of a Broken Heart: And &s;aveth &s;uch as are of a Contrite Spirit.</P></Q>
<Q><HI>The Spirit of God delights to dwell in the Heart of the Hum|ble Man.</HI><BIBL> Era&s;m.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>Humilitas animi Sublimitas Chri&s;tiani.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Thomas Milbourn</HI> for <HI>Thomas Wall</HI> Book&s;eller, by the <HI>Tolzey</HI> in <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> 1670.</P>
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<HEAD>To my Endeared Kin&s;man <HI>WALDI&V;E WILLINGTON,</HI> of <HI>Hurly-Hall</HI> at <HI>Kingsbury,</HI> in the County of <HI>Warwick</HI> E&s;q;</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_DEdications are in Our Times &s;o frequent, that it's now accounted ei|ther Pre&s;umption, or Singurity to appear in Print without it: Your Name is here prefixed, not only that Cu&s;tom nece&s;&s;itates me thereto, but becau&s;e an Op|portunity is given me to tell the Pre&s;ent, and Future Ages, how much I Love and Ho|nour your <HI>Piety</HI> and <HI>Prudence;</HI> And how
<PB REF="3">much I am, my &s;elf your Debtor for the Con&s;tancy of your Favour, and the many re&s;pectful Acknowledgements I have re|ceived from you, in an Age, when Love waxeth cold, even to neer Relations, who are extreamly undervalued, or held Contemp|tible, if Inferior to them.</P>
<P>The de&s;igne of this pre&s;ent Work is to &s;ignifie my Love and Gratitude by the be&s;t return which I can make; Which is by an Addre&s;s of the en&s;uing <HI>Di&s;cour&s;e</HI> to your Con&s;ideration. Had you all the Accom|pli&s;hments this Life is capable of, yet whil&s;t in the World, you cannot be past the need of helps, whatever they may be. This I com|mit to your judgment, promi&s;ing it a Cover|ing large enough for the Deficiency of the <HI>Author;</HI> And my &s;elf a good Acceptance from him, who was plea&s;ed to encourage it in the <HI>Pulpit,</HI> with a Chri&s;tian Re&s;pect and Attention. <HI>Sir,</HI> This <HI>Sermon</HI> is your s by many Engagements, and my Prayers, at the <HI>Throne</HI> of <HI>Grace,</HI> cea&s;e not, that the&s;e <HI>Di|rections</HI> may be Yours in the practical and
<PB REF="3">real Enjoyments of them; That the <HI>Nature, Marks,</HI> and <HI>Acts, of a Broken and Con|trite Heart,</HI> may be exemplified in the Con|ver&s;ations of you and yours; And that the many publique Exhibitions of <HI>Grace</HI> and <HI>Vertue</HI> wherewith you have been eminently Honoured, may by the Finger of Gods Spirit be Engraven on the fle&s;hly Tables of your Hearts: That the Lord have made you in &s;ome mea&s;ure happy herein, I am extreamly confirmed, from the Ob&s;ervation of your Zeal for God, his Church, and the Mini&s;ters of his Word; and your Humble, Temperate, and Friendly Deportment towards all: to which I might add, The <HI>Ble&s;&s;ings</HI> enjoyed by your Religious &amp; Beloved <HI>Con&s;ort,</HI> in the Comforts of a Well-Govern'd Family. And now deare&s;t <HI>Sir,</HI> Becau&s;e Ide&s;pair of oppor|tunity &s;uitable to mine own Wi&s;hes, and your Merit, I have made hold to clo&s;e with this &s;lender Advantage, of te&s;tifying to the World my deep &s;en&s;e I have of your per&s;onal Worth, which with your other Obligations, hath me|rited abundantly more from me to your
<PB REF="4">prai&s;e, than either your Wi&s;dom or Mode&s;ty will acknowledge; or for the nearne&s;s of my Relation to you, may be held convenient for me to enlarge. That which was Preach'd with you formerly, and now publi&s;hed for the u&s;e of all, may be e&s;pecially u&s;eful to you and yours: And that the Father of Mercies will returne all your Kindne&s;s with a Rich recom|pence of Reward both of <HI>Grace</HI> here, and <HI>Glory</HI> hereafter, in the <HI>World</HI> to come, is the unfained de&s;ire of,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t Affectionate Kin&s;man, and Servant in the Go&s;pel, Geo. Willington.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From may Study, <DATE>the <HI>12th,</HI> of <HI>Sept. 1670.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A PRESENT FOR JEHOVAH.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>PSAL. 51.17.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit; a Broken and Contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not di&s;pi&s;e.</P></Q>
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<P>_SUch is the nece&s;&s;ity of true and un|feigned Repentance,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Introduction</NOTE> that with|out it even the mo&s;t Righteous man upon the face of the Earth, cannot be Saved in the Day of the Lord. <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t began his preaching with Repentance; Saying, <HI>Repent yee, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.</HI> Mat. 3.2. Our Saviour Chri&s;t followed on, <HI>Mat.</HI> 4.17. from
<PB N="2" REF="5">that time Je&s;us began to preach and to &s;ay, <HI>Re|pent, For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.</HI> The Apo&s;tles followed his Example, <HI>Acts</HI> 2.38. To tho&s;e who were pricked in their hearts is Repen|tance preached; <HI>Repent, and be baptized every one of you, for the Remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins:</HI> And ye &s;hall receive the Gift of the Holy Gho&s;t. But <HI>Luke</HI> 13.5. our Saviour tell tho&s;e of <HI>Galilee, Except ye Repent, ye &s;hall all likewi&s;e peri&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Obj. <HI>But the&s;e were notable Sinners.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> I, but the Church of <HI>Ephe&s;us, Revel.</HI> 2.5. which had many good things in her, is com|manded to remember from whence &s;he had fallen, and to repent. So the Church of <HI>Sardis, Revel.</HI> 3.3. <HI>Remember how thou ha&s;t received, and heard; and hold fa&s;t, and repent.</HI></P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee the nece&s;&s;ity of Repentance to all, notwith&s;tanding which, How many be there in our Church &s;eeming-Chri&s;tians, who content|ing them&s;elves with the Knowledge of the bare Name of Repentance, never &s;eek after the Knowledge of the Nature thereof? How many who know the Nature, never practice any part thereof? Are not our fiduciaries &s;uch as tho&s;e of St. <HI>Bernard,</HI> who tells of many wayes whereby men Irreligous were wont to excu&s;e their Sins? <HI>Aut non feci quod dicis, aut feci quod dic is, &s;ed bene|feci; aut &s;i mal&eacute;, non multum mal&eacute;; aut &s;i mul|tum mal&eacute;, non mala intentione, ut &s;entis.</HI> Ei|ther I have not done that which thou &s;aye&s;t, or, if I have done it, I did well: But if 'twere
<PB N="3" REF="5">evil, 'twas no great hurt, I pray God I may ne|ver do wor&s;e; but if it was great hurt, I had no intent to do it, as thou thinke&s;t. Some &s;tout|ly deny their &s;ins, and with a Whori&s;h Fore|head put God (as it were) to his Proof for their &s;ins. They, <HI>Mal.</HI> 1.6. <HI>Wherein have we de&s;pi&s;ed thy Name? Wherein have we polluted thee?</HI> Some with <HI>Jonah,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jonah</HI> 4.9.</NOTE> di&s;obediently &s;tick not to tell God to his Face, <HI>That Hee did well to be angry unto the Death.</HI> Some with <HI>Abemilech</HI> King of <HI>Gerar,</HI> who when he took the Wife of <HI>Abraham,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 20.5.</NOTE> &s;aid, <HI>He did it with an upright Heart.</HI></P>
<P>Some put it off upon others, as <HI>Adam</HI> upon <HI>Eve,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 3.12, 13. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.21</NOTE> Eve</HI> upon the <HI>Serpent; Saul</HI> upon the <HI>People.</HI></P>
<P>But thus did not our princely Prophet, he took the Shame to him&s;elf, Judged him&s;elf, Judged him&s;elf, Condem|ned him&s;elf; came with an Halter about his
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Kings</HI> 20. v. 31, 32.</NOTE> Neck, as a Condemned Malefactor with his <HI>Pecavi,</HI> &amp; <HI>Mi&s;ereri mei Deus: Informa pauperis, Have mercy upon me O God.</HI></P>
<P>This P&s;alm is a perfect Coppy, and exact pat|tern of true and &s;ound Repentance,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.13.</NOTE> Penn'd by our Royal Prophet,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The title of the P&s;alm.</NOTE> when <HI>Nathan</HI> the Prophet came unto him after he had gone in to <HI>Bath&s;heba,</HI> and had defiled his body in <HI>Uriah's</HI> Bed, and imbrewed his hand in <HI>Uriah's</HI> blood.</P>
<P>From the fir&s;t Ver&s;e to the 18, he prayes for him&s;elf: From the 18. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> to the end of the P&s;alme, he prayed for the Church.</P>
<P>In praying for him&s;elf, he de&s;ired to be wa&s;h|ed, and clean&s;ed, and purged. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 2. <HI>Wa&s;h me
<PB N="4" REF="6">throughly from my Wickedne&s;s: and clean&s;e me from my &s;in.</HI> Ver&s;. 7. <HI>Purge me with Hy&s;ope, and I &s;hall be clean; Wa&s;h me, and I &s;hall be whiter than Snow. q. d.</HI> Saith <HI>Junius;</HI> Wa&s;h me more, purge me more, clean&s;e me more in the Merits of
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 1.7. <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.14.</NOTE> Chri&s;t's blood, from the guilt, and from the filth of all my Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions: <HI>Then will I teach Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors thy wayes, and Sinners &s;hall be Converted unto thee. ver&s;.</HI> 13.9. <HI>q.d.</HI> O God, if thou wilt &s;hew mercy to my poor Soul, I that have had my
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>ver&s;</HI> 12.</NOTE> Bones broken, &s;hall be an In&s;trument
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.4.</NOTE> to bind up others; and will tell thy People that fear thy Name,
<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mal.</HI> 3.16.</NOTE> What
<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 66.16.</NOTE> <HI>great things thou ha&s;t done for my poor Soul.</HI></P>
<P>Further, it will be an occa&s;ion of God's glory, when he &s;hould come to the Lord, and offer the Sacrifices of Prai&s;e, not Tipical but Real, not Legal but Evangelical Sacrifices: <HI>Cor concu&s;&s;um &amp; Contritum; A Broken and Contrite Heart. The Sacrifices of God are a Broken Spirit; a Broken and Contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not di&s;pi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>The Text contains two general Propo&s;iti|ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. Affirmative, <HI>The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Negative, <HI>A broken and contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not de&s;pi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>In the double Propo&s;ition, you have,</P>
<P N="1">1. The Subject, <HI>Cor concu&s;&s;um &amp; contritum, A broken and contrite Heart.</HI></P>
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<P N="2">2. The Predicate, <HI>Sacrificia Dei: The Sacrifices of God.</HI></P>
<P>In further handling of the&s;e words, I &s;hall pro|po&s;e and follow this my wonted Method.</P>
<P>To &s;peak to you,
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<ITEM>1. By way of Explication.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. By way of Confirmation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. By way of Application.</ITEM>
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<P N="1">1. By way of Explication; <HI>Heart</HI> and <HI>Spirit;</HI> by the former is not meant that fle&s;hly part which is in our brea&s;ts, which we commonly call &s;o, though &s;ometimes the word is &s;o taken in Scrip|ture, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 2.24. but by both is here meant, that which the Scripture &s;ometimes terms
<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Col.</HI> 3.16.</NOTE> the <HI>Inner-man;</HI> &s;ometimes the <HI>Hidden man</HI>
<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3 4.</NOTE> of <HI>the Heart,</HI> and that which we ordinarily call the <HI>Soul,</HI> with all it's Powers and Faculties. By <HI>Spirits</HI> here, is meant the Seat of &s;orrow; the Spirit
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4.23</NOTE> of the mind.</P>
<P><HI>Doct.</HI> If any man will offer acceptable Sacri|fice to God, let him prepare the Spirit of his mind.</P>
<P>God him&s;elf is a Spirit, and they that Wor|&s;hip him, mu&s;t wor&s;hip him in <HI>Spirit and in Truth. John</HI> 4.24.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 51. v. 6.</NOTE> He loves Truth in the inward af|fections. <HI>Corpora fecit propter Spiritus; Ideoque etiam &s;piritualia, non corporea querit;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">B. Cooper <HI>Super. loc.</HI></NOTE> &s;aith a Lear|ned Prelate. He meant the bodies for the Spirits, and therefore &s;eeks he not bodily but Spiritual Wor&s;hip. Some there are, <HI>Qui &s;ua dant, non Seip&s;os:</HI> who offer to him not them&s;elves,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Seip&s;os.</NOTE> but
<PB N="6" REF="7">that which is theirs; but it is a blind folly to think thou can&s;t plea&s;e him, when thou wilt not give the &s;ervice of thy Heart and Spirit unto him, <HI>Prov.</HI> 23. ver&s;. 26. <HI>Mi &s;ili, da mihi Cor tuum.</HI></P>
<P>But le&s;t we &s;hould think that every Spirit is ac|ceptable,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">What a bro|ken Heart is.</NOTE> he adds this Epethet, <HI>Broken and Con|trite.</HI></P>
<P>A broken heart is &s;uch a heart that is hum|bled through a &s;ight and &s;en&s;e of &s;in; and wounded and prick't with the fear of God's an|ger, grieving for offending &s;o good and &s;o graci|ous a God: 1. Bathing his eyes in Tears, and melting his Soul into &s;orrow, that ever he has offended &s;o good a God that <HI>made</HI> him, di&s;plea&s;ed &s;o &s;weet a Saviour that <HI>redeemed</HI> him, griev'd &s;o Holy a Spirit as hath <HI>&s;triven</HI> with him, tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ed &s;o Righteous a Law as was <HI>given</HI> to him, broken &s;o gracious a <HI>Covenant</HI> as was made with him; begging Mercy and Pardon at the Throne of the Almighty's Grace, with as much earne&s;t|ne&s;s and importunity, as the Hunger-bitten Beg|gar doth a Mor&s;el of bread, or the Malefactor a P&s;alm of Mercy.</P>
<P>This is that poor Spirit St. <HI>Mathew</HI> &s;peaks
<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 5.3.</NOTE> of; this is that Spirit that trembles at God's word, which the Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;peaks
<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 66.2.</NOTE> of; this is that Heart-rent the Prophet <HI>Jonah</HI> &s;peaks
<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Jona.</HI> 2.12.13.</NOTE> of. By the Prophet
<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 42.3</NOTE> and the <HI>Evangeli&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 12.20.</NOTE> it's compared to a brui&s;ed Reed; it's al&s;o in Scripture called a pricking
<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts</HI> 2.37.</NOTE> of the heart; a
<PB N="7" REF="7">melting
<NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nah</HI> 2.10 <HI>P&s;al</HI> 119.28.</NOTE> of the heart, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P>All which import the inward, unfeigned, hearty &s;orrow, which is in a penitent Soul for offending a good and a gracious God.</P>
<P>And he puts the word in the Plural Number, <HI>Sacrificia,</HI> the Sacrifices; to &s;hew, that a Heart brui&s;ed and broken, humbled and pricked,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> in the &s;ight and &s;en&s;e of &s;in, is <HI>In&s;tar Omnium,</HI> in|&s;tead of all; all Sacrifice is nothing without it, all &s;um'd up in it. Let men offer what Sacrifices they will, never &s;o many, never &s;o co&s;tly, never &s;o excellent; yet if this be wanting, 'tis but in vain, God e&s;teems not of it: One broken Heart is more worth than a thou&s;and 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 <HI>broken Heart, and contrite Spirit,</HI> all's in vain, and to no
<NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 1. ver&s;. 11.12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.</NOTE> purpo&s;e: We cannot plea&s;e God in any thing we do without <HI>a broken and contrite heart.</HI></P>
<P>The Sacrifices of God.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Chap. 66.24.</NOTE> The adding God's Name to any think in Scripture, gives it an Em|minency, a Lu&s;tre, a Glory, above all other things. As, there's mention made of the Wa|ters
<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 65.9.</NOTE> of God; the Mountain
<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Exod.</HI> 3.1</NOTE> of God; the Trees
<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al</HI> 104 16.</NOTE> of God, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And in the New Te&s;tament, the Peace
<NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 4.7</NOTE> of God, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And here in the Text, <HI>The Sacrifices of God;</HI> mo&s;t rare and excellent Sacrifices, &s;uch as God will not di&s;|pi&s;e. <HI>A broken and a contrite Heart, O God, thou
<PB N="8" REF="8">wilt not di&s;pi&s;e.</HI> The Phra&s;e is low, yet hath a <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> in it, as 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 5.20. <HI>Di&s;pi&s;e not Pre|phe&s;yings,</HI> and Heb. 12.5. <HI>Di&s;pi&s;e not the Cha&s;ten|ing of the Lord:</HI> And &s;o imports the choyce&s;t way of acceptation. <HI>A broken and contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not di&s;pi&s;e:</HI> thou do&s;t love and like, and art well plea&s;ed with <HI>a broken Heart.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>broken and contrite Heart is Sacrifice TO GOD;</HI> mo&s;t rare and excellent Sacrifice; as the Mountains of God are high Mountains: and the Cedars of the Lord are tall Cedars: So <HI>a broken Heart, and a contrite Spirit,</HI> being <HI>the Sacrifices of God,</HI> are mo&s;t rare, excellent, and choyce Sacri|fices.</P>
<P>From the Words thus con&s;idered, this is the point of In&s;truction.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Doctrine"> Of all Services and Sacrifices to be pre&s;ented to God,<HI>A broken and a contrite Heart</HI> is mo&s;t plea|&s;ing, and acceptable.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> God will graciou&s;ly look upon &s;uch a Heart.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Demon&s;t."> To this purpo&s;e &s;peaks <HI>Jehovah</HI> by the Evan|gelical Prophet,<HI>I&s;a.</HI> 66.2. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord, Heaven is my Throne, and the Earth my Foot-&s;tool: Where is the Hou&s;e that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my re&s;t? For all tho&s;e things hath my hand made, and all tho&s;e things have been, &s;aith the Lord: But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite Spirit, and that trembleth at my Words.</HI> See, how the Lord lifts up him&s;elf unto the highe&s;t Heavens; <HI>Heaven is
<PB N="9" REF="8">my Throne, and the Earth is my Foot-&s;tool.</HI> Oh! How &s;hall I come and Appear before &s;o great a God; a God of &s;uch terrible Maje&s;ty, and migh|ty Powers! Why! Be not afraid poor Soul, the Lord will ca&s;t a look of Love upon thee, not only a look of Pity, but al&s;o a look of Compla|cency. <HI>To him will I looke &s;ayes God, even to him that is poor:</HI> 1. <HI>Vile and ba&s;e in his own eyes;</HI> and 2d. <HI>Of a contrite Spirit, and that trembles at my Word.</HI> q. d. I have more regard to this poor Trembler at my Word, than I have to the great Temple that was built for my Wor&s;hip. Gen. 4.4. <HI>God had re&s;pect to</HI> Abel, <HI>and to his Offering. The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit; a broken and contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not di&s;pi&s;e.</HI> That's the fir&s;t rea&s;on of God's acceptance of <HI>a broken Heart,</HI> becau&s;e God will graciou&s;ly look upon &s;uch a heart.</P>
<P N="2">2. <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Demon&s;t."> The Lord &s;o delights <HI>in a broken and contrite Heart,</HI> that he not only looks on him, but al&s;o draws nigh unto him. To this purpo&s;e the <HI>P&s;al|mi&s;t</HI> very &s;weetly, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 34.16, 17.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;alm</HI> 34.17, 18.</NOTE> <HI>The Righte|ous cry, and the Lord heareth them; and delivereth them out of their Troubles: The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite Heart: and will &s;ave &s;uch as are of an humble Spirit.</HI> 'Tis a great privi|ledge that we can <HI>draw nigh to God,</HI> that God does hold out the golden Scepter of his Grace, and allow us to come and touch the top of it: We might have been in Hell long agoe, roaring un|der an endle&s;s Damnation, far enough from God, had not he &s;pared us, <HI>Numb.</HI> 16. ver&s;. 9.
<PB N="10" REF="9">&s;aid <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> there to <HI>Korah</HI> and his complices: <HI>Seemeth it a &s;mall thing unto you, that the God of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>had &s;eparated you from the Congregation of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>to take you near to him&s;elf, to do the Service of the Tabernacle?</HI> Seemeth this a &s;mall thing unto you? Oh! 'tis a great priviledg that we can <HI>draw nigh unto God. It is good for me to draw near to God,</HI> &s;aith the P&s;almi&s;t, with a <HI>Probatum e&s;t,</HI> P&s;al. 73. <HI>ult.</HI> Now then if this be &s;o great a priviledg for you <HI>to draw nigh to God,</HI> Oh! What a tran&s;cendent, un&s;peakable priviledg is it for God to draw nigh to you! to delight in your Per&s;ons! to delight in your Prayers, to bottle your tears, and to Regi&s;ter your groans! And this he doth <HI>to broken and contrite Hearts; the Lord is nigh unto all them that are of a contrite heart; Nigh unto them in all that they call upon him for.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Demon&s;t."> <HI>A broken and contrite Heart</HI> is plea&s;ing and acceptable to God, for he <HI>will</HI> come and <HI>dwell</HI> in that Soul: <HI>Thus &s;aith the Holy and Lofty One that inhabites Eternity, who&s;e Name is Holy: I dwell in the High and Holy place, with him al&s;o that is of a contrite and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the Spirit of the contrite Ones.</HI> God has two chief places of re&s;idence, <HI>viz.</HI> The highe&s;t Heaven, and the lowe&s;t Heart; the one he fills with his glorious, the other with his graci|ous Pre&s;ence. He dwells in the High and Holy place; the Cherubins wor&s;hip him (though with covering their blu&s;hing Faces) <HI>and Thou&s;and
<PB N="11" REF="9">thou&s;ands
<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan.</HI> 7.10.</NOTE> of Angels mini&s;ter unto him,</HI> yet he dwells and holds his Re&s;idence in <HI>a broken and contrite Heart; he will not de&s;pi&s;e, yea, he delights to dwell there.</HI></P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Demon&s;t"> La&s;tly, <HI>A broken and contrite Heart</HI> is plea&s;ing,and acceptable to God; for he heals <HI>a broken Heart.</HI> To this purpo&s;e &s;weetly &s;peaks <HI>Jehovah</HI> by his Evangelical Prophet, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 57.15. <HI>For thus &s;aith the High and Lofty One that Inhabiteth Eternity, who&s;e Name is Holy, I dwell in the High and Holy place, with
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Note this.</NOTE> him al&s;o that is of a contrite and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite Ones.</HI> Ver&s;. 18. <HI>I have &s;een his Wayes, and will heal him: I will lead him al&s;o, and re&s;tore Comfort unto him, and to his
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 5.4.</NOTE> Mourners. He heals the broken in Heart, and binds up their
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> Griefs. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53.5. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2 24.</NOTE> Wounds,</HI> P&s;al. 147.3. Indeed, &s;ometimes the Lord hides his Face, and with-draws
<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 54. ver&s;. 7.8.</NOTE> the Light of his Countenance; then <HI>David</HI> cries,
<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 6.3.2,</NOTE> <HI>Heal me O Lord, for my Bones are vexed: My Soul is al&s;o &s;ore troubled, but thou O Lord, how long?</HI> Then <HI>Job</HI> cries, <HI>The terrors of God
<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Job</HI> 6 4.</NOTE> &s;et them&s;elves in Battle array again&s;t me, the Poy&s;on whereof drinks up my Spirits. But then the Lord comes in in due &s;ea&s;on, and he heals the broken in Heart, and giveth Medicine to heal their Sickne&s;s, and bindeth up their Wounds.</HI> O happy tho&s;e Sighs, tho&s;e Sobs, which &s;in hath made in thy Soul, when Chri&s;t him&s;elf &s;hall come to bind them up!</P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee that of all <HI>&s;ervices</HI> and <HI>&s;acrifices</HI> pre&s;ented to God, <HI>a broken and contrite Heart</HI> is mo&s;t plea&s;ing and acceptable.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="10">
<P>The Rea&s;ons are chiefly two:</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Rea&s;on"> <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI>Becau&s;e it is a Spiritual &s;acrifice, there|fore an Acceptable Sacrifice. It is not the Sacri|fice of a dead Carka&s;s; 'tis a <HI>living Sacrifice, a broken Heart, and a contrite Spirit.</HI> The heart is the be&s;t of Man, and <HI>a broken Heart</HI> is the be&s;t of Hearts. <HI>I be&s;eech you Brethren, by the Mer|cies of God,</HI> (&s;aith the Apo&s;tle) <HI>That yee pre|&s;ent your Bodies A LIVING Sacrifice, Holy, ac|ceptable unto God, which is your rea&s;onable &s;ervice,</HI> Rom. 12.1. where the Apo&s;tle (very patheti|cally) u&s;eth an Ob&s;ecration, an Obte&s;tation, a Compellation, an Abjurgation, and all, to pre&s;s this duty home upon their Conver&s;ati|ons.</P>
<P>The duty is to pre&s;ent their bodies a [living] Sacrifice, living without the Soul it cannot be, <HI>For the body without the Spirit is dead,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>John</HI> 6.69.</NOTE> James 2.26. <HI>Bodily exerci&s;e profits little</HI> (if it be only bodily) 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.8. <HI>It is the Spirit that quickens, the fle&s;h profits nothing.</HI></P>
<P>To offer this Spiritual Sacrifice, the Apo&s;tle abjures them by the mercies of God; <HI>I be&s;eech you Brethren by the mercies of God.</HI> The Apo&s;tle might have &s;aid, there's a con&s;uming fire, there are everla&s;ting burnings: There's a Hell, an endle&s;s Damnation, a place of the Damned, and that mu&s;t be your Eternal e&s;tate and condition, the portion of your Cup; if you pre&s;ent not your bodies <HI>a living Sacrifices to God.</HI> But he doth adjure them, and conjure them by the mercies of
<PB N="13" REF="10">God, to perform it: What if Chri&s;t were here, and &s;aid to thee; <HI>Oh! Sinner, come lay thy Heart in my lap, and I will bind up the Wounds of thy Soul; I will welcome thee, and I will &s;ave thee.</HI> Would not this ravi&s;h our hearts, to hear a tender Saviour &s;o lo|vingly inviting us, &s;o graciou&s;ly promi&s;ing us? There's nothing can break a Soul more in an E|vangelical way, than the &s;ight
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.10. <HI>Zach.</HI> 12 10.</NOTE> and &s;en&s;e of God's mercy in Je&s;us Chri&s;t. As Naturalli&s;ts ob&s;erve, <HI>That the warm Blood of a Goat, doth &s;often an Adamant-Stone; &s;o doth the &s;erious con&s;ideration of the warm Blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, our &s;cape-goate, &s;often an Ada|mant-heart.</HI> But more of this among&s;t the means and directions
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Direction the &s;ixth.</NOTE> for getting <HI>a broken Heart.</HI></P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Rea&s;on"> <HI>Secondly,</HI>Of all Services and Sacrifices pre|&s;ented to God, <HI>a broken and contrite Heart</HI> is mo&s;t plea&s;ing and acceptable, becau&s;e 'tis a Believing Sacrifice. <HI>Faith and Repentance</HI> (like <HI>Hypocrates</HI> Twins) <HI>are born and bred together in the &s;acred Womb of a &s;anctified Soul, Zach.</HI> 12.10. It was promi&s;ed concerning Evangelical Converts; <HI>I will pour upon the Hou&s;e of David, and up the Inhabi|tants of Jeru&s;alem, the Spirit of grace and of &s;uppli|cation; and they &s;hall look on me whom they have pier|ced, and they &s;hall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son, and &s;hall be in bitterne&s;s for him, as one is in bitterne&s;s for his fir&s;t-born,</HI> I&s;a. 42.1. Chri&s;t is called, <HI>Him in whom the Father delights.</HI> God proclaimed him from Heaven, to be <HI>his only be|loved Son in whom he is well plea&s;ed:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 3. ult. <HI>Mat.</HI> 17.5.</NOTE> not only plea&s;|ed [with] him, but al&s;o plea&s;ed [in] him, with
<PB N="14" REF="11">all broken-hearted Sinners; they mu&s;t needs then be the delight of the Lord al&s;o. Thus I have done with Confirmation, and [come in the la&s;t place] to Application.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE UNIT="U&s;e."> <HI>Let us labour to get,and keep; to attain, and maintain &s;uch a heart all our dayes.</HI></P>
<P>And here (for Methods &s;ake, and your better Under&s;tanding) I &s;hall endeavour to &s;hew you the&s;e three things:</P>
<P N="1">1. The particular Acts <HI>of a broken and contrite Heart.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The mo&s;t infallible marks and &s;igns <HI>of a broken and contrite Heart.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The mo&s;t probable means both to attain, and maintain &s;uch a heart all your dayes; <HI>That your end may be ble&s;&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. The Acts of a broken and contrite Heart.</NOTE> There are eight acts <HI>of a broken &amp; contrite Heart.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> A powerful conviction of the heart and con&s;cience of <HI>our &s;inful e&s;tate, and mi&s;erable condi|tion,</HI> cau&s;ed by the preaching of the Word out|wardly, and by the working of the Spirit inward|ly, when God &s;ets our &s;ins in order before us, and makes us know our Abominations, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50.21. <HI>How many are mine Iniquities, and my &s;ins? make me to know mine Iniquity, and my &s;ins,</HI> Job 13.23.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Act."> <HI>Secondly,</HI>an in ward &s;orrow of the heart in the &s;ight, and &s;en&s;e of &s;in; when <HI>the eye doth affect the heart,</HI> Lam. 3.51. when upon the Di&s;cove|ries of &s;in, <HI>the heart is prick'd</HI> with compunction, and godly contrition, <HI>Acts</HI> 2.37. There is not the lea&s;t &s;in we have committed, but will fetch
<PB N="15" REF="11">a tear from our eyes, and a &s;igh from our hearts, if we weigh and con&s;ider it as we ought. It grieves the Holy Spirit of God, it procured the Death of Chri&s;t: Let us therefore <HI>look upon him whom we have pierced,</HI> [by our &s;ins] and weep over him, <HI>Zech.</HI> 12.10.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Act."> <HI>Thirdly,</HI> Humiliation of the inward man,in the &s;ight and &s;en&s;e of &s;in. <HI>O Lord, I am but du&s;t and
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 18 27</NOTE> a&s;hes,</HI> &s;aid Father <HI>Abraham. I am le&s;s
<NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 32.10.</NOTE> than the lea&s;t of all thy Mercies,</HI> &s;aid the Patriarch <HI>Jacob. I am not worthy to be called thy Son,</HI> &s;aid
<NOTE N="(s)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke</HI> 15.19.</NOTE> the Pro|digal. <HI>I am not worthy
<NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg"><HI>John</HI> 1.27</NOTE> to &s;toope down, and unloo&s;e his &s;hooes Latchet,</HI> &s;aid <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t concerning our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are the Poor in &s;pirit: For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven,</HI> Mat. 5.3. Oh! How vile and ba&s;e doth a bro|ken-hearted &s;inner
<NOTE N="(v)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Job</HI> 40.4. &amp; 42.6. <HI>Prov.</HI> 30 2. <HI>Luke</HI> 1.48.</NOTE> &s;eem in his own eyes! To &s;uch will God be gracious: <HI>He gives grace to the humble,</HI> 1 Pet. 5.5.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Act."> <HI>Fourthly,</HI>An Holy anger and Indignation both again&s;t our &s;ins, and again&s;t our &s;elves for our &s;ins. A pregnant place to this purpo&s;e is that in <HI>Ezek.</HI> 6.9. <HI>They that e&s;caped of you, &s;hall remember me among the Nations, whither they &s;hall be carried Captive, becau&s;e I am broken with their Whori&s;h heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which go a Whoring after their Idols, and they &s;hall
<NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">Be di&s;|plea&s;ed with them&s;elves.</NOTE> loath them&s;elves for the Evils which they have committed in all their Abominations.</HI> And the A|po&s;tle &s;peaks of godly &s;orrow, and of the quali|ties of it; among&s;t the re&s;t, he mentions Indig|nation
<PB N="16" REF="12">again&s;t &s;in,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Indignations</NOTE> 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.11. <HI>What Indignati|ons?</HI> Such as was in <HI>Ephraim bemoaning him&s;elf,</HI> and lamenting his &s;in; who <HI>&s;mote upon his Thigh, &s;cil.</HI> in token of Indignation, and an Holy Anger again&s;t his &s;in, and him&s;elf for his &s;in, <HI>Jer.</HI> 31.18, 19.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly,</HI> <MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Act."> An Holy &s;hame of the Soul, when the Soul doth blu&s;h upon the inward &s;ight and &s;en&s;e of &s;in. A pregnant place to this purpo&s;e, <HI>Ezra.</HI> 9.6. where that Holy man in his Confe&s;&s;ion thus &s;peaks; <HI>O my God, I am a&s;hamed, and blu&s;h to lift up my face to thee my God. For our Iniquities are in|crea&s;ed over our heads,and our Tre&s;pa&s;&s;es are grown up to the very Heavens.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Note. </NOTE> Another pregnant Scrip|ture to this purpo&s;e, is <HI>Jer.</HI> 31. ver&s;. 19. <HI>I have heard Ephraim bemoaning him&s;elf thus; &s;urely
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mark the Phra&s;e.</NOTE> after I was turned, I repented; and after I was in&s;tructed, I &s;mote upon my Thigh: I was a&s;hamed, yea, even con|founded, becau&s;e I did bear the Reproach of my Youth.</HI> Ezek. 16.61. <HI>Then &s;halt thou remember thy wayes, and be a&s;hamed.</HI></P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Act."> <HI>Sixthly,</HI>An inward Loathing and Dete&s;tati|on of &s;in, both in our &s;elves and others.</P>
<P>We read of <HI>Amnon,</HI> that after he had Ravi&s;hed his Si&s;ter <HI>Tamar,</HI> the hatred with which he hated her, was more than the Love wherewith he loved her before, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 13.15. So doth the broken hearted-&s;inner hate &s;in, more than ever he loved it in times pa&s;t; He hates it with an exceeding bitter hatred. <HI>I hate, and abhor Lying,</HI> P&s;al. 119.163. <HI>I hate every fal&s;e way,</HI> ver&s;. 104. <HI>Yee that love
<PB N="17" REF="12">the Lord, &s;ee that ye hate the thing which is Evil,</HI> P&s;al. 97.10. <HI>Abhor that which is Evil,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Rom.</HI> 12.9.</P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="Act."> <HI>Seventhly,</HI>A mo&s;t &s;trict and firm re&s;olution a|gain&s;t all manner of &s;in for time to come. A preg|nant Text, <HI>Ezra.</HI> 10. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2.3. when the peo|ple had repented for <HI>taking &s;trange Wives,</HI> they re&s;olved, &s;aying, <HI>Let us make a Covenant with our God, to put away all the Wives, and &s;uch as are born of them.</HI> So <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 14.8. <HI>Ephraim &s;hall &s;ay, What have I to do any more with Idols?</HI> What was the &s;aying of <HI>Elihu</HI> in <HI>Job,</HI> Is the Language of eve|ry man and woman who has <HI>a broken and contrite Heart.</HI> Job 34.32. <HI>That which I &s;ee not, teach thou me: If I have done Iniquity, I will do no more.</HI> Ephe&s;.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>John</HI> 8.11.</NOTE> 4.28. <HI>Let him that &s;tole, &s;teal no more.</HI></P>
<P> <MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="Act."> <HI>Finally,</HI>This <HI>broken and contrite Heart</HI> con&s;i&s;ts in an unfeigned weeping of the tears of the eyes, cau&s;ed by <HI>the &s;orrow</HI> of the heart for &s;in. <HI>All the Night wa&s;h I my Bed, and water my Couch with my teares,</HI> P&s;al. 6.6. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 7.16. It's &s;aid of the <HI>Rem|nant</HI> whom God will &s;ave, They &s;hall mourn <HI>like the Doves of the Vallies, every one for his Iniquity. And</HI> Peter <HI>(when he remembred the words of Chri&s;t,</HI> and his own denial) <HI>went out and wept bitterly,</HI> Mat. 26. <HI>ult.</HI></P>
<P> <MILESTONE UNIT="Que&s;tion."> Que&s;t.<HI>But how &s;hall I know that I have this</HI> broken and contrite Heart?</P>
<P> <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> <HI>An&s;w.</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">: <HI>Tentate probate:Ex|amine, prove,</HI> the Apo&s;tles Coun&s;el, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.5. <HI>For if a man think him&s;elf to be &s;omething when he is nothing, he deceives him&s;elf.</HI> (As the Church of
<PB N="18" REF="13"><HI>Loadicea</HI>
<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Revel.</HI> 3.17.</NOTE> who &s;aid &s;he was Rich, and increa&s;ed with Goods, and had need of nothing: When &s;he was wretched, and mi&s;erable, and poor, and blind, and naked.) <HI>But let every one prove his own works,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. ver&s;. 3.4.</P>
<P>I therefore come (in the next place) to lay down the mo&s;t infallible Marks and Signs <HI>of a broken and contrite Heart;</HI> by the &s;ight of which, you may know whether you have &s;uch hearts or no. <HI>Oh that there were in us &s;uch Hearts!</HI></P>
<P><HI>A broken and contrite Heart</HI> doth repre&s;s cen&s;ori|ou&s;ne&s;s.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Marks of a broken Heart.</NOTE> A truly <HI>broken and contrite Heart</HI> is mo&s;t &s;en&s;ible of it's own &s;in, knows mo&s;t evil by it &s;elf, judgeth it's own &s;in greate&s;t, and it's own &s;tate &s;adde&s;t: Hath neither li&s;t nor lei&s;ure to cen&s;ure others. The Apo&s;tle's Caution and Coun&s;el, <HI>Rom.</HI> 14.13. runs thus: <HI>Let us not judge one another, but judge this rather, that no man put a &s;tumbling Block, or AN OCC ASION to fall in his Brothers way.</HI> What an excellent in&s;tance have we in <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> who is called a Ju&s;t man for his La|bour: He had look'd upon <HI>Mary</HI> formerly as a Godly gracious Woman; and &s;he being now with Child, he knew not what to think of it; but having a purpo&s;e to leave her (being former|ly contracted to her) that he might not bring Re|proach upon him&s;elf, and to put her away pri|vately, that the World might not take notice of any &s;uch thing, that &s;o he might not bring Re|proach upon her, <HI>Mat.</HI> 1.19. <HI>Jo&s;eph her Husband being a ju&s;t man, and not willing to make her a pub|lique
<PB N="19" REF="13">Example, was minded to put her away privily.</HI> That was his Care, his Hone&s;ty, his Righteou&s;|ne&s;s. But where &s;hall we find the like Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, or Tenderne&s;s now a dayes, to conceal the Failings, and to &s;ave the Credit of our Bre|thren! We are glad if we have any thing to pa|radigmatize them for, and &s;ay, as they did of <HI>Jeremy,</HI> the Lord's Prophet,
<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 20.10. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50. ver&s;. 20.21.</NOTE> <HI>Report, and we will report it</HI> <Q REND="inline">That Godly Emperour <HI>Con&s;tantine,</HI> was quite of another mind (as I find him
<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">(z) <HI>Omnis ne&s;tra &s;ides pendet ab Hi&s;toria.</HI> Owens <HI>E|pigrams.</HI> lib. 12. ch. 2.</NOTE> upon Record) who was wont to &s;ay; <HI>If he &s;hould find a Chri&s;tian-Bi&s;hop, or Pa&s;tor, overtaken in any Infamous act, He would pull off his Purple Robe to throw upon him to cover him, rather then that any &s;hould come by his means to hear of it, to the &s;candal of Religion.</HI></Q> I am &s;ure this is mo&s;t like to the Example of Chri&s;t, who ca&s;ts his Pur|ple Robe upon us, that our &s;ins &s;hould not be taken notice of.</P>
<P N="2">2. A broken is a Praying heart. We read, <HI>Luk.</HI> 15. concerning the
<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 17.</NOTE> Prodigal Son, that when once he had an <HI>humbled Heart,</HI> and <HI>acontrite Spirit,</HI> he fell to Prayer pre&s;ently, <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 21. <HI>The Son &s;aid unto him, Father, I have &s;inned again&s;t Heaven, and
<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 71.4</NOTE> in thy &s;ight; and am no more worthy to be called thy Son.</HI> And Chri&s;t, Heb. 5.7. <HI>In the dayes of his Fle&s;h offered up Prayers and Supplications, with &s;trong cries and tears.</HI> And Rom. 8.26. We read <HI>of &s;ighs and groans, that cannot be uttered or expre&s;&s;ed.</HI> Now, Where are tho&s;e Prayers? Where are tho&s;e Cryes? Where are tho&s;e Tears? Where are tho&s;e
<PB N="20" REF="14">Sighs? Where are tho&s;e Groans? Where are tho&s;e
<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 31.18.</NOTE> Moans? Thou ha&s;t liv'd a great while in the World, but oh! When ha&s;t thou wept with
<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 9.1. <HI>Lam.</HI> 1.16.</NOTE> <HI>Jeremy,</HI> for the &s;ins of the times, and thine own Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions? When ha&s;t thou poured out thy Soul to the Lord? I fear thou art &s;o far from this, that thy heart is hardened; and if &s;o, the Lord will one day break thy heart with the fury of his wrath, and hot di&s;plea&s;ure, that burns to the lowe&s;t Hell.</P>
<P N="3">3. <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Mark."> <HI>A broken Heart</HI> is an humble low heart; Oh very low, it can ca&s;t it &s;elf in the Du&s;t at the feet of Chri&s;t, and think any thing on this &s;ide Hell to be rich Mercy. He is
<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat</HI> 5.3</NOTE> poor, and
<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 5 7</NOTE> meek in Spirit. You know how <HI>Abraham</HI>
<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 18.27.</NOTE> treated with God, and plea&s;ed him, when he addre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf to him, with an Acknowledg|ment of his Vilene&s;s: <HI>Behold, Now I have taken upon me to &s;peak to the great God, who am but Du&s;t and A&s;hes;</HI> You know Chri&s;t lay
<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 26.39. <HI>Mark</HI> 14.35</NOTE> grovelling on the ground all Night. <HI>I abhor
<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Job</HI> 42.6.</NOTE> my &s;elf, and repent in Du&s;t and A&s;hes,</HI> &s;aid <HI>Job.</HI> If then thou ha&s;t <HI>a broken Heart,</HI> thou ha&s;t a low heart; thou art little and low in thine own eyes; vile and ba&s;e in thine own &s;ight. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 34.6. <HI>This poor man crieth, and the Lord heareth him.</HI> Give this poor man &s;omething before he go away; he is &s;uch a low Spirit, that he is one ready to &s;ink to Hell, were it not for the Mercies of God, the Merits of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and the &s;weet Promi&s;es of the Go&s;|pel. Yea, remember the Woman of <HI>Canaan,</HI>
<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 15. ver&s;. 23. &amp;c.</NOTE>
<PB N="21" REF="14">&s;he was called Dog, and yet would take no re|pul&s;e, but cried; &s;aying, <HI>Lord, I do begg one drop of Mercy, one crumb of Comfort: One crumb of the bread of Life, one drop of the water of Life, to &s;atisfie a poor langui&s;hing Soul, &s;weet Je&s;u, for thy Mercies &s;ake; &s;ome drops of the blood of Chri&s;t to &s;often my hard heart, and to break it throughly.</HI></P>
<P N="4"> <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Signe."> 4. If thou ha&s;t this <HI>broken and contrite Heart,</HI>that is &s;o acceptable to God, thou do&s;t mourn.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. For thine own Sin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. For the Sins of others.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1">1. For thine own Sins, <HI>David</HI> did &s;o in this P&s;alm; he did Penance for his Sin in a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Robe of Chri&s;t's Righteou&s;|ne&s;s. <HI>Ver&s;</HI> 7. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3.8.9. <HI>Revel.</HI> 19. Ver&s;. 8. <HI>and</HI> 14.</NOTE> white-Sheet; he mourned daily for his own Sin; <HI>&s;cil.</HI> For the Root of the matter within, and for the Fruit of the matter without; for his Original Corruption, for his actual Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion; for the Sin of his Nature, and the Sins of his Life. He opens his Soul to the Lord, and leaves this P&s;alm to the Church upon Record; wherein he confe&s;&s;eth and mourns for his Sins, <HI>Mat.</HI> 26. <HI>ult.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. For the Sins of others; <HI>Rivers of Tears run down mine eyes,</HI> (&s;aid <HI>broken-hearted David) be|cau&s;e men keep not thy Law,</HI> P&s;al. 119.136. <HI>Many walk</HI> (&s;aith the Apo&s;tle) <HI>of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are Enemies to the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t,</HI> Phil. 3.18. And <HI>Ezek.</HI> 9.4. we read of them that <HI>&s;igh, and mourn, and cry, for the Iniquities and Abominations that were committed in the Land.</HI></P>
<PB N="22" REF="15">
<P N="5">5. <MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Signe."> <HI>A broken Heart</HI> is a loving heart; if thou ha&s;t <HI>a broken and contrite Heart,</HI> thou love&s;t any thing of Chri&s;ts, any thing that bears his Image, and Super&s;cription. When thou come&s;t to that glo|rious Go&s;pel-Ordinance of the <HI>Lord's Supper</HI> &s;o as to di&s;cern
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.29.</NOTE> the Lord's Body; thou meditate&s;t, Oh, there's the Body and Blood of my Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t! Oh, here's the Son of God that made up the Breach between God &amp; my Soul! Oh, Je&s;us Chri&s;t, here's the Son of God that was incarnate for me, <HI>And paid a price for my Re|demption. The Penitant Woman,</HI> Luk. 7.47. <HI>She loved much,</HI> becau&s;e her great and grievous <HI>&s;ins were for|given.</HI></P>
<P>I will &s;um up the Acts and Signs <HI>of a broken Heart</HI> in the&s;e eighth following Particulars, as a famous Divine hath contracted them.</P>
<P N="1">1.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eight Signs contracted.</NOTE> He that is truly broken, will be contented with nothing but Mercy from God, in Je&s;us Chri&s;t. <HI>He hath wounded, and he mu&s;t heal,</HI> Ho&s;. 6.1.</P>
<P N="2">2. He judgeth &s;in the greate&s;t evil, and the fa|vour of God the greate&s;t good.</P>
<P N="3">3. He had rather hear of Mercy than of a Kingdome.</P>
<P N="4">4. He hath mean Conceits of him&s;elf: And thinks he is not worth the Earth he treads on.</P>
<P N="5">5. Towards others, he is not cen&s;orious, as be|ing taken up at home; but is full of Simpathy and Compa&s;&s;ion to tho&s;e that are under God's hand.</P>
<P N="6">6. He counts them that walks in the Comforts of Gods Spirit, the happie&s;t men in the World.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="15">
<P N="7">7. He trembles at the Word of God, and ho|nours the very Feet of the&s;e ble&s;&s;ed In&s;truments that brings Peace unto him.</P>
<P N="8">8. He is more taken up with the inward Ex|erci&s;es <HI>of a broken Heart,</HI> than with Formality, and yet careful to u&s;e all Sanctified means for it's at|tainment.</P>
<P>And this brings me to the third things premi&s;|ed, <HI>&s;cil.</HI> to &s;hew the mo&s;t propable means to get, and keep, to attain, and maintain, &s;uch a heart all our dayes.</P>
<P N="1">1.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Means to get a bro|ken Heart.</NOTE> To give diligent attendance to the Word of God, read and preached, 2 <HI>Reg.</HI> 22. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 11. &amp;c. <HI>Is not my Word a Hammer that breaks the Rock to pieces?</HI> Jer. 23.29. While <HI>Lydia</HI> was hearing <HI>Paul</HI> preach, Almighty God <HI>opened</HI> her heart, <HI>Acts</HI> 16.14. So that if we would have <HI>broken Hearts,</HI> we mu&s;t wait upon the Preaching of the Go&s;pel, where the Holy Gho&s;t u&s;ually falls up|on the hearts of men.</P>
<P N="2">2. Make a Catalogue of thy Sins; which thou may&s;t do either by Memory, or by Book. By Memory thus; <HI>Go a&s;ide, &s;et thy Soul before the Lord, as if thou wert pre&s;ently to be judged of him; call to mind particularly what&s;oever thou can&s;t remember by thy &s;elf; con&s;ider thy Omi&s;&s;ions of good, and thy Com|mi&s;&s;ions of evil, in Youth or riper Age, in Heart or Life, in things that concern God or Man, or thine own Soul and Di&s;po&s;ition, Thoughts and Affections, Words and Actions.</HI> By Book, thus: <HI>Procure the La|bour of &s;ome Reverend Divine, that has briefly gather|ed
<PB N="24" REF="16">the &s;ins again&s;t each Commandment, and from thence gather out &s;o many &s;ins as thou know&s;t by thy &s;elf, that thou ha&s;t been guilty of; lay tho&s;e &s;ins daily before thy Con&s;cience, and con&s;ider how many ways thou ha&s;t made thy &s;elf guilty.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;ider then the ju&s;tice of God, how he hates all Sin; which thou maye&s;t be a&s;&s;ured of, if thou remember how he plagued our fir&s;t Parents, the Old World, <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah;</HI> How fear|fully he neglected the <HI>Gentiles;</HI> Ca&s;t off the <HI>Jews:</HI> yea, how he &s;pared not his own Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t, when he became <HI>a &s;urety</HI> for other mens Sins.</P>
<P N="4">4. Force upon thy &s;elf the remembrance of thy
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Memento novi&s;&s;ima: Memento quid erit in novi&s;&s;imo, <HI>Eccius.</HI> 7.26</NOTE> latter end, and thy appearance before the Tri|bunal <HI>Seat of Chri&s;t, to receive according to all thou ha&s;t done in the fle&s;h,</HI> Heb. 9.27. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.10.</P>
<P N="5">5. Beg an humble heart, <HI>a broken and contrite Spirit</HI> at the Throne of Grace, and &s;ue out God's promi&s;e made to tho&s;e who by Prayer i&s;&s;ue out it's per&s;ormance, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 36.26. compared with <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 31. and 37.</P>
<P N="6">6. Remember the Pa&s;&s;ion of thy Saviour, the the Poverty, Bani&s;hment, Ignominy, Temptati|on, the Apprehending, For&s;aking, Arraign|ing, Condemning, and cruel Death which he &s;uffered for thy &s;ins. <HI>Look upon him whom thou ha&s;t pierced,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Zach.</HI> 10.10.</P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>La&s;tly,</HI> Set &s;ometimes a day apart for Fa&s;t|ing and Prayer. A day of Fa&s;ting was hereto|fore called, a day of Afflicting or Humbling the
<PB N="25" REF="16">Soul, <HI>Levit.</HI> 16.29. both becau&s;e it was the main duty of the day, and becau&s;e the Lord u&s;ually did ble&s;s his one Ordinance, &s;o as he gave an <HI>hum|ble Heart</HI> to tho&s;e that &s;ought it of him.</P>
<P>To break the Stone in thy Heart, be&s;ides the aforementioned Directions, ob&s;erve this Spiri|tual Receipt; which will (under God) cure all thy Souls Maladies.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="recipe">
<HEAD>A Sovereign Cordial again&s;t Infection; taken out of the Sacred Herbal of the Holy Scrip|ture.</HEAD>
<P><HI>DRink a good draught of</HI> Jo&s;iah's <HI>Humility next thy Heart; then take a Do&s;e of</HI> Nehemiah's <HI>Repentance, &s;oak'd or &s;teep'd in the Ve&s;&s;el of</HI> a Broken and Contrite Heart, <HI>well &s;ea|&s;oned with Truth and Sincerity at the bottom; then let all the&s;e Boyl together in a good quantity of</HI> David's <HI>Tears; and when thou ha&s;t done this, then &s;pread a Plai&s;ter of</HI> God's Grace, <HI>and bind it fa&s;t to thy Soul, with the Swadling bands of</HI> Love <HI>and</HI> pious Con&s;i|deration, <HI>and ca&s;t away all thy old infections gar|ments of</HI> Sin, <HI>and</HI> Iniquity, <HI>and put on the Gar|ments of</HI> Prai&s;e <HI>and</HI> Thank&s;giving. <HI>Then take a a good quantity of</HI> Jo&s;huah's <HI>Re&s;olution, as thou can&s;t well bear, and &s;o walk up and down in the&s;e Whol&s;ome and plea&s;ant</HI> Fields <HI>called</HI> Newne&s;s of Life; <HI>and &s;o follow thy Calling in the Fear of God.</HI></P>
<PB N="26" REF="17">
<P>All which being carefully done, and truly ob|&s;erved; will undoubtedly pre&s;erve thee from the &s;tink and danger of all places what&s;oever.</P>
<P><HI>And &s;o I commend you to God, and to the Word of his Grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an Inheritance among&s;t them that are San|ctified in Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> Amen.</P>
<P><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</P>
<CLOSER>Laus Deo.</CLOSER>
</DIV2>
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<DIV1 TYPE="appendix">
<PB N="27" REF="17">
<HEAD>AN APPENDIX FOR THE CHRISTIANS CONVERSATION.</HEAD>
<P>Who&s;oever will live Well, and Ble&s;&s;edly, let him follow this Rule, by which he &s;hall obtain to that which he de&s;ireth.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Let your Thoughts be Divine, Aweful, Godly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Words be Few, Hone&s;t, True.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Works be Holy, Profitable, Charitable.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Sleep be Moderate, Quiet, Sea&s;onable.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Diet be Temperate, Convenient, Frugal.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Apparel be Sober, Neate, Comely.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Recreations be Lawful, Brief, Seldom.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Prayers be Short, Devout, Often.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Will be Con&s;tant, Obedient, Ready.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Manners be Grave, Courteous, Chearful.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your Memory be Of Death, Puni&s;hment, Glory.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ecclus. 7.26.</HI></BIBL> What&s;oever thou take&s;t in hand, Remember the End, and thou &s;halt never do ami&s;s.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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