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

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, ⟨p. 47⟩and to find mercy with him. You do him the honour which he seeks, and which is most worthy of a God, the most excellent, and a self-sufficient Being, when you do thus. You answer the intendment of the whole Gospel-constitution, which bears this Inscription, To the praise of the glory of his grace, &c. 'Tis honourable to him when you take his Word, that they that believe in his Son, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. You herein set to your Seal that he is true, and the more fully, and with the more significancy, when upon the credit of it you yield your selves, with an assurance that he will not destroy or reject a poor creature that yields to him, and casts its self upon his mercy.

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 sav'd, 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, ⟨p. 47⟩and to find mercy with him. You do him the honour which he seeks, and which is most worthy of a God, the most excellent, and a self-sufficient Being, when you do thus. You answer the intendment of the whole Gospel-constitution, which bears this Inscription, To the praise of the glory of his grace, &c. 'Tis honourable to him when you take his Word, that they that believe in his Son, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. You herein set to your Seal that he is true, and the more fully, and with the more significancy, when upon the credit of it you yield your selves, with an assurance that he will not destroy or reject a poor creature that yields to him, and casts its self upon his mercy.