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

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 ⟨p. 44⟩they thus judge, that they ought no longer to live to themselves, but to him, &c. 2 Cor. 5. 14. 15. These things last mentioned will imply a rectified mind, which must be ingredient into this transaction, else it will be defective throughout.

3. It must be done with Judgment, which is the effect of such consideration. When all things have been well weigh'd 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 ⟨p. 44⟩they thus judge, that they ought no longer to live to themselves, but to him, &c. 2 Cor. 5. 14. 15. These things last mentioned will imply a rectifi'd mind, which must be ingredient into this transaction, else it will be defective throughout.

4. It must be done with a fullness of Consent; and herein it chiefly consists, when the Soul says, Lord, I am now most entirely willing to be thine: This is your yielding your selves. And hereby the Covenant is struck between God and you; which consists in the expressed Consent of the parties covenanting in the matters about which the Covenant is. This Covenant is about the Parties themselves, who covenant, as the Conjugal Covenant is, which resembles it; viz. that they shall be one another's. God hath expressed his consent in his Word and Gospel, making therein the first overture to you. When you rejoin your own consent, the thing is done: This being the sum of his Covenant, I will be your God, and you shall be my People, as in many places of Scripture it is gathered up. When therefore, as God hath openly testified his willingness to be their God who shall accept, and take him to be