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

4. And considering what inspection we are under, 'tis a vain thing. For do we not know that eyes which are as a flame of fire, behold us, and pierce into our very Souls? Do we not know all things in us are naked and manifest to him with whom we have to do? ¹And that he discerns it, if there be any heart ⟨p. 60⟩among us that is not sincere in this thing?

1. 1Heb. 4. 12.

5. Consider that this is the very design of the Gospel you live under. What doth it signify or intend, but to recall Apostate Creatures back again to God? What is the Christian Religion you profess, but a State of devotedness to God, under the conduct, and thorough the mediation of Christ? You frustrate the Gospel, and make your Religion a nullity, and an empty name till you do this.

5. Consider that this is the very design of the Gospel you live under. What doth it signifie or intend, but to recal Apostate Creatures back again to God? What is the Christian Religion you profess, but a State of devotedness to God, under the conduct, and thorough the mediation of Christ? You frustrate the Gospel, and make your Religion a nullity, and an empty name till you do this.

6. And how will you lift up your heads at last in the great day? and before this God the judge of all? You cannot now plead ignorance. If perhaps any among you have not been formerly so expressly called, and urged to this yielding your selves to God; now you are: and from his own plain Word 'tis charged upon you. Will not this be remembered hereafter? What will you say when the great God whose Creature you are, speaks to you with the voice of Thunder, and bids you gird up your Loins, and give him an answer? Were you not on such a day, in such