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

1. 'Tis a plain and unquestionable thing you are pressed unto: A thing that admits of no dispute, and against which you have nothing to say, and about which you cannot but be already convinced. And 'tis a matter full of danger, and upon which tremendous consequences depend, to go on in any practice, or in any neglect, against a conviction of Judgment and Conscience. For your own Heart and Conscience must condemn you if you consider, and it betrays you if you consider not. How fearful a thing is it for a man to carry his own Doom in his own Bosom! to go up and down the World with a Self-condemning Heart, if it be awake, and which if it be not, yet cannot sleep always, and must awake with the greater ⟨p. 59⟩terror at length. And in so plain case 'tis most certainly Gods Deputy, and speaks his Mind; If our hearts condemn us, ¹God is greater than our hearts, &c.

1. 'Tis a plain and unquestionable thing you are prest unto: A thing that admits of no dispute, and against which you have nothing to say, and about which you cannot but be already convinc't. And 'tis a matter full of danger, and upon which tremendous consequences depend, to go on in any practice, or in any neglect, against a conviction of Judgment and Conscience. For your own Heart and Conscience must condemn you if you consider, and it betrays you if you consider not. How fearful a thing is it for a man to carry his own Doom in his own Bosom! to go up and down the World with a Self-condemning Heart, if it be awake, and which if it be not, yet cannot sleep always, and must awake with the greater ⟨p. 59⟩terror at length. And in so plain case 'tis most certainly Gods Deputy, and speaks his Mind; If our hearts condemn us, ¹God is greater than our hearts, &c.

1. 11 Joh. 3. 20.