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

2. As the continual Sustainer of your Being; and who renews your life unto you every moment;¹ in whom you live, and move, and have your Being continually; so that if he should withdraw his supports, you immediately drop into nothing.

1. 1Act. 17. 28.

But these are things common to you with all other creatures; and signify therefore his antecedent right in you, before you have yielded your selves, upon which you ought to do it, and cannot without great injustice to him decline doing it. There are other considerations also you ought to entertain concerning him in this your yielding your selves to him, viz. of some things which are partly ⟨p. 11⟩and in some sense before it, and which it supposes, but which partly also, and in a more especial sense would follow and be inferred by it. Principally, this fourfold consideration you should have of him in your yielding your selves to him, viz. as your Owner, your Teacher, your Ruler, and your Benefactor, and all these with the addition of Supreme, it being impossible he should have a Superior; or that there should be any one above him in any of these. And he is in some sense all these to you before you can have yielded your selves (as may in great part be collected from what hath been already said;) But when you yield your selves to him, he will be all these to you in a far higher, nobler, and more excellent sense; and you are to yield your selves to him as such, or that in your so doing, he may actually become such to you.

But these are things common to you with all other creatures; and signifie therefore his antecedent right in you, before you have yielded your selves, upon which you ought to do it, and cannot without great injustice to him decline doing it. There are other considerations also you ought to entertain concerning him in this your yielding your selves to him, viz. of some things which are partly