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

5. Your yielding your selves to God must carry life in it, as the following words signify; Yield your selves to God as those that are alive from the dead. It must be a vital act, and have vigour in it. You must be capable of making that true Judgment ⟨p. 46⟩of your case, as 'tis v. 11. of reckoning truly that you are dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ. Do it as feeling life to spring in your souls towards God in your yielding your selves to him. What! will you offer God a carcass? not the living Sacrifice, which you see is required, Rom. 12. 1. Beg earnestly for his own Spirit of life and power, that may enable you to offer up a living Soul to the living God.

5. Your yielding your selves to God must carry life in it, as the following words signifie; Yield your selves to God as those that are alive from the dead. It must be a vital act, and have vigour in it. You must be capable of making that true Judgment ⟨p. 46⟩of your case, as 'tis v. 11. of reckoning truly that you are dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ. Do it as feeling life to spring in your souls towards God in your yielding your selves to him. What! will you offer God a carcass? not the living Sacrifice, which you see is required, Rom. 12. 1. Beg earnestly for his own Spirit of life and power, that may enable you to offer up a living Soul to the living God.

6. There must be Faith in your yielding your selves. For it is a committing, or entrusting your selves to God, with the expectation of being saved, and made happy by him. So Scripture speaks of it, 2 Tim. 2. 12. I know whom I have believed (or trusted) and that he is able to keep what I have committed to him against that day. 'Tis suitable to the gracious nature of God, to his excellent greatness, to his design, to the Mediatorship of his Son, to his Promise and Gospel-Covenant, and to your own necessities, and the exigency of your own lost, undone state, that you so yield your selves to him, as a poor creature ready to perish, expecting, not for your sake, but his own, to be accepted,