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

But here I desire you to consider, Are you never to become the Lords by your own choice? Are you always to be Christians, only by another's Christianity, not by your own? And again, Have you not broken your Baptismal Vow? have you not forgot it for the most part ever since? I am afraid too many never think of any such matter at all, that ever they were devoted to God by others, but only upon such an occasion as this, to make it an excuse that they may never do such a thing themselves. And consider, were these Christian Romans on whom the Apostle presses this duty never Baptized, think ⟨p. 56⟩you? Read over the foregoing part of the Chapter, wherein you find him putting them in mind that they had been baptized into Christs death, and buried with him in baptism, and that therefore this was to be an argument to them why they should yield themselves to God; not why they should not.

But here I desire you to consider, Are you never to become the Lords by your own choice? Are you always to be Christians, only by another's Christianity, not by your own? And again, Have you not broken your Baptismal Vow? have you not forgot it for the most part ever since? I am afraid too many never think of any such matter at all, that ever they were devoted to God by others, but only upon such an occasion as this, to make it an excuse that they may never do such a thing themselves. And consider, were these Christian Romans on whom the Apostle presses this duty never Baptiz'd, think ⟨p. 56⟩you? Read over the foregoing part of the Chapter, wherein you find him putting them in mind that they had been baptiz'd into Christs death, and buried with him in baptism, and that therefore this was to be an argument to them why they should yield themselves to God; not why they should not.

Wherefore our way is now plain and open to what we have further to do, viz.