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

Yet again you are to conceive of him as Three in One; and that in your yielding your selves to him; as the prescribed form, when this surrender is to be made in Baptism, directs; which runs thus, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Matth. 28. 19. You are not to be curious in your enquiries beyond what is written in this matter, how far the ⟨p. 9⟩Subsistents in the Godhead are three, an in what sense one; they cannot be both in the same sense. But there is latitude enough to conceive how they may be distinct from each other, and yet agree in one Nature; which in none of them depending upon will and pleasure, sets each of them infinitely above all created Being; which for the Divine pleasure only was and is created, Rev. 4. 11. And that we so far conceive of them as three, as to apprehend some things spoken of one, that are not to be affirmed of another of them, is so plain, of so great consequence, and the whole frame of practical Religion so much depends thereon; and even this transaction of yielding up our selves (which must be introductive, and fundamental to all the rest) that it is by no means to be neglected in our daily course, and least of all in this solemn business, as will more appear anon. In the mean time, set this ever blessed, glorious God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost before your eyes, as to whom (thus in himself considered) you are now to yield your selves.

Yet again you are to conceive of him as Three in One; and that in your yielding your selves to him; as the prescrib'd form, when this surrender is to be made in Baptism, directs; which runs thus, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Matth. 28. 19. You are not to be curious in your enquiries beyond what is written in this matter, how far the ⟨p. 9⟩Subsistents in the Godhead are three, an in what sense one; they cannot be both in the same sense. But there is latitude enough to conceive how they may be distinct from each other, and yet agree in one Nature; which in none of them depending upon will and pleasure, sets each of them infinitely above all created Being; which for the Divine pleasure only was and is created,