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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.
You are to yield your selves to his Claim as your rightful Owner.
To his Instruction, as your undeceiving Teacher.
To his Government, as your Gracious, Sovereign Ruler. And
To the enjoyment of him, as your best and most satisfying Good. Or your self-communicating Benefactor.
But it also concerns you to have distinct and right thoughts of the state of your case, and how things are between ⟨p. 35⟩him and the Sons of men, that you may duly apply your selves to him in so great a transaction. The Gospel under which you live tells you, he treats with men in and by a Mediator, his own Son, who came down into this wretched World of ours, in great compassion to our miseries, and took our Nature, was here on Earth among us an incarnate God. God manifested in the flesh. Because we were partakers of flesh and blood, he took part with us likewise of the same, and in that Nature of ours died for us, to make way that we might yield our selves to God, and be accepted.