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

For will you not give him his own? When you account duty to your Prince obliges you to give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, will you not give God the things that are God's? ⟨p. 14⟩And will you not know him for your Owner? The Ox knows his Owner, Isa. 1. 3. Or will it satisfy you to be in no other kind his, than brutes and Devils are, that either through an incapacity of Nature cannot acknowledge him, or through a malignity of Nature will not? O yield your selves, with humble desire and expectation that he will vouchsafe otherwise to own you!

For will you not give him his own? When you account duty to your Prince obliges you to give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, will you not give God the things that are God's? ⟨p. 14⟩And will you not know him for your Owner? The Oxe knows his Owner, Isa. 1. 3. Or will it satisfie you to be in no other kind his, than brutes and Devils are, that either through an incapacity of Nature cannot acknowledge him, or through a malignity of Nature will not? O yield your selves, with humble desire and expectation that he will vouchsafe otherwise to own you!

2. As your Teacher; so indeed he also is to all men, tho' they never yield themselves to him. He that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know? Psal. 94. 10. There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives him understanding. Yea and inferior creatures, as they all owe their Natures, and peculiar Instincts to him, may be said to have him for their Teacher too. But will it content you to be so only taught by him? There is another sort of Teaching, which, if you yield your selves to him as your great Instructor, he will vouchsafe unto you. The things you know not, and which it is necessary you should know, he will teach you, i. e. such things as are of real necessity to your true and final welfare,