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

And if within such limits you take the help of men for your Instruction; having yielded your selves to God as your supreme ⟨p. 30⟩and highest Teacher, you are upon safe terms. Only be sincere in listening to his dictates, whether internal or external. Let not a prepossessed heart, or vicious inclination be their Interpreter. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God, &c. John 7. 17.

And if within such limits you take the help of men for your Instruction; having yielded your selves to God as your supream ⟨p. 30⟩and highest Teacher, you are upon safe terms. Only be sincere in listening to his dictates, whether internal or external. Let not a prepossest heart, or vicious inclination be their Interpreter. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God, &c. John 7. 17.

3. You must consider God, in your yielding your selves, as your Sovereign Ruler. For to whom you yield your selves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; as by v. 16. Tho' Teaching and Ruling may be diversly conceived of, they cannot be separate in this case. The nobler and final part of God's Teaching you, is teaching you your duty; what you are to practise and do. And so when he teaches you, he commands you too; and leaves it not arbitrary to you whether you will be directed by him or no. What is his by former right, and by after-consent, and self-resignation, shall it not be governed by him? if it be a subject capable of Laws and Government, as such consent shows it to be? Your yielding your selves to God is not an homage but a mockery, if you do it not with a resolution to receive ⟨p. 31⟩