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

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 ⟨p. 45⟩so, you also are willing, and do consent too, you do now take hold on his Covenant, matters are agreed between him and you; and you may take those words as spoken to you particularly; I have entered into Covenant with thee, and thou art become mine, Ezek. 16. 8.

4. It must be done with a fulness 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 anothers. God hath exprest his consent in his Word and Gospel, making therein the first overture to you. When you rejoyn 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 ⟨p. 45⟩so, you also are willing, and do consent too, you do now take hold on his Covenant, matters are agreed between him and you; and you may take those words as spoken to you particularly; I have entred into Covenant with thee, and thou art become mine,