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

2. To apply this practical Doctrine, and press the Precept further upon you, which hath been opened to you, and pressed by parts in some measure already, in our insisting on the several heads, which you have seen do belong to it; and are one way or other comprehended in it. Which will therefore make this latter part of our work the shorter, and capable of being dispatched in the fewer words; and with blessed effect, if the Spirit of the living God shall vouchsafe to co-operate, and deal with your hearts and mine. Shall we then all agree upon this thing? Shall we unite in one resolution, We will be the Lords? Shall every one say in his own ⟨p. 57⟩heart, For my part, I will, and so will I, and so will I? Come now, one and all. This is no unlawful confederacy, 'tis a blessed combination! Come then, let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant, ¹not to be forgotten. With whatsoever after-solemnity, you may renew this Obligation, and Bond of God upon your Souls, as I hope you will do it, every one apart, in your Closets, or in any corner, and you cannot do it too fully, or too often; yet let us now all resolve the thing; and this assembly make a joint-surrender, and oblation of it self to the great God our Sovereign rightful Lord, through our blessed Redeemer and Mediator, by the Eternal Spirit, (which I hope is breathing and at work among us,) as one living sacrifice, as all of us, alive from the dead, to be for ever sacred to him? O blessed Assembly! O happy act and deed! With how grateful and well-pleasing an odour will the kindness and dutifulness of this Offering ascend, and be received above! God will accept, Heaven will rejoice, Angels will concur, and gladly fall in with us. We hereby adjoin ⟨p. 58⟩our selves in relation, and in heart and spirit, to the general Assembly, to the Church of the First-born Ones written in Heaven, to the innumerable Company of Angels, and to the Spirits of just men made perfect, and within a little while shall be actually among them. Is it possible there should be now among us any dissenting Vote? Consider,

2. To apply this practical Doctrine, and press the Precept further upon you, which hath been open'd to you, and prest by parts in some measure already, in our insisting on the several heads, which you have seen do belong to it; and are one way or other comprehended in it. Which will therefore make this latter part of our work the shorter, and capable of being dispatch't in the fewer words; and with blessed effect, if the Spirit of the living God shall vouchsafe to co-operate, and deal with your hearts and mine. Shall we then all agree upon this thing? Shall we unite in one resolution, We will be the Lords? Shall every one say in his own