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Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your…
Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your selves to God" / by J.H. ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 61⟩a place demanded and claimed in my Name? Were you not told, were you not convinced you ought to yield your selves to me, and yet you did it not? Are you prepared to contest with your Maker? Where is your right, where is your power, to stand against me in this contest?
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 expresly call'd, and urg'd to this yielding your selves to God; now you are: and from his own plain Word 'tis chargd upon you. Will not this be remembred 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