Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your…

Do so then; Fall before his Throne; Prostrate your self at his footstool; and having chosen your fit season, when nothing may interrupt you; and having shut up your self with him, pour out your Soul to him; tell him you are now come on purpose, to offer your selves to him as his own. O that you would not let this night pass without doing so! Tell him you have too long neglected him, and forgotten to whom you belonged; humbly beseech him for his pardon, and that he will now accept of you, for your Redeemer's sake, as being through his grace resolved never to live so great a stranger to him, or be such a wanderer from him more. And when you have done so, remember the time; let it be with you a noted memorable ⟨p. 55⟩day, as you would be sure to keep the day in memory when you became such a ones Servant or Tenant, or your Marriage-day: Renew this your agreement with God often, but forget it never.

Do so then; Fall before his Throne; Prostrate your self at his footstool; and having chosen your fit season, when nothing may interrupt you; and having shut up your self with him, pour out your Soul to him; tell him you are now come on purpose, to offer your selves to him as his own. O that you would not let this night pass without doing so! Tell him you have too long neglected him, and forgotten to whom you belong'd; humbly beseech him for his pardon, and that he will now accept of you, for your Redeemer's sake, as being through his grace resolv'd never to live so great a stranger to him, or be such a wanderer from him more. And when you have done so, remember the time; let it be with you a noted memorable ⟨p. 55⟩day, as you would be sure to keep the day in memory when you became such a ones Servant or Tenant, or your Marriage-day: Renew this your agreement with God often, but forget it never.

Perhaps some may say, But what needs all this? were we not once devoted and given up to God in Baptism? and is not that sufficient? To what purpose should we do again a thing that hath once been so solemnly done?