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

7. Another Ingredient into this yielding of your selves must be Love. As Faith, in your yielding your selves to God, aims at your own welfare and salvation; so Love, in doing it, intends his service, and all the duty to him you are capable of doing him. You must be able to give this as the true reason of your act, and to resolve it into this Principle; I yield my self to God, because I love him, and ⟨p. 48⟩from the unfeigned love I bear to him; to tell the World; if there were occasion, he hath captivated my heart with his Excellencies and his Love, and hereupon having nothing else, I tender my self to him, to tell himself, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee; and because I do, I present my self to thee; 'tis all I can do. I wish my self ten thousand times better for thy blessed sake; and if I had in me all the Excellencies of many thousand Angels, I were too mean a thing, and such as nothing but thy own goodness could count worthy thine acceptance; because I love thee, I covet to be near thee, I covet to be thine, I covet to lead my life with thee, to dwell in thy presence; far be it from me to be as without thee in the World as heretofore. I love thee, O Lord, my strength, because thine own perfections highly deserve it, and because thou hast heard my voice, and hast delivered my Soul from death, mine Eyes from tears, and my Feet from falling, and I yield my self to thee, because I love thee. I make an offer of ⟨p. 49⟩my self to be thy servant, thy servant, O Lord, thou hast loosed my bonds; and now I desire to bind my self in new ones to thee, that are never to be loosed. And you can make no doubt but that it ought to be done therefore with dispositions and a temper suitable to the state you are now willing to come into, that of a devoted Servant; viz.

8. With great reverence and humility. For, consider to whom you are tendering your self; to the high and lofty One that inhabiteth Eternity: To him that hath Heaven for his Throne, and Earth for his Footstool; and in comparison of whom all the inhabitants of the World are but as Grasshoppers, and the Nations of the Earth as the drop of a bucket, and the dust of the Balance, &c. Yea to him against whom you have sinned, and before whose pure eyes, you cannot, in your self, but appear most offensively impure; so that you have reason to be ashamed and blush to lift up your eyes before him.