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

2. It must be done with great deliberation; not as the mere effect of a sudden fright. What is done in a rash haste, may be as soon undone. Leisurely consider, and take the whole compass of the case; ⟨p. 43⟩weigh with your selves the mentioned grounds upon which you are to yield your selves, and the ends you are to do it for, that things may be set right between him and you, that you may return into your own natural place and station, that you may be again stated in that subordination to your Sovereign Lord which fitly belongs to you; that he may have his right which he claims, and you the mercy which you need. Here is place for much consideration. And when Israel is complained of as less willing to acknowledge God for his Owner and Master, than the Ox and Ass were to acknowledge theirs, all is resolved into this, that the people did not consider, Isa. 1.

2. It must be done with great deliberation; not as the meer effect of a sudden fright. What is done in a rash haste, may be as soon undone. Leisurely consider, and take the whole compass of the case; ⟨p. 43⟩weigh with your selves the mentioned grounds upon which you are to yield your selves, and the ends you are to do it for, that things may be set right between him and you, that you may return into your own natural place and station, that you may be again stated in that subordination to your Sovereign Lord which fitly belongs to you; that he may have his right which he claims, and you the mercy which you need. Here is place for much consideration. And when Israel is complain'd of as less willing to acknowledge God for his Owner and Master, than the Oxe and Ass were to acknowledge theirs, all is resolved into this, that the people did not consider, Isa. 1.

3. It must be done with Judgment, which is the effect of such consideration. When all things have been well weighed that belong to this case, then let this formed Judgment pass, Lord, I ought to be thine, and no others. Say to him hereupon, with a convinced Judgment and Conscience, O God, I surrender my self, as now seeing none hath that right in me that thou hast; when the Love of Christ becomes constraining upon Souls, it is because