This is the Gospels great design, this is our errand here, we come for you and are loth to go without you. We beseech you by the mercies of God, to make a present of your selves, as a living sacrifice to God. Poor sinners are like Rebels besieged, whom Christ Jesus will either win, or starve. His Ordinance is mounted, and it batters. A breach is made in the Judgment, but the sinner will not yield; another in the Conscience, yet is he loth to yield; the white flag of mercy is set up, but of a long time the sturdy sinner will not treat: the red flag is hung out, divine wrath is on the march, and a ⟨p. 19⟩storm is preparing. The Ordinance of God replanted again, and now if it hit right, and a breach be made upon the will, then Christ is victor, the City is won, and the sinner yields. And then his note is changed, Psal. 116. 16. O Lord, truly I am thy servant, I am thy servant: Mark how the Psalmist redoubles it, I am, I am, truly I am. Redoubled refusals call for redoubled submissions. I will neither be my own master, nor my own servant. I here make a Deed of Gift of my whole self to thee, without Reservation, and without Power of Revocation. It is not enough to say this in a pang of kindness, or in a complement, as we do to men: What's more common with us, than Your servant Sir? but its a servant without service, and such servants hath God a great many, his Servants, but their own Masters; but holy David was not such a man, I am thy servant, truly I am thy servant, I am resigned to thee, I am resolved for thee, thou hast bored my ears, Psal. 40. 6. and obliged me to thee for ever. I will be thine both Totally and Finally. When you thus give your Own selves to the Lord, 2 Cor. 8. 5. This is the ground and root of Uprightness.
This is the Gospels great design, this is our errand here, we come for you and are loth to go without you. We beseech you by the mercies of God, to make a present of your selves, as a living sacrifice to God. Poor sinners are like Rebels besieged, whom Christ Jesus will either win, or starve. His Ordinance is mounted, and it batters. A breach is made in the Judgment, but the sinner will not yield; another in the Conscience, yet is he loth to yield; the white flag of mercy is set up, but of a long time the sturdy sinner will not treat: the red flag is hung out, divine wrath is on the march, and a ⟨p. 19⟩storm is preparing. The Ordinance of God replanted again, and now if it hit right, and a breach be made upon the will, then Christ is victor, the City is won, and the sinner yields. And then his note is changed, Psal. 116. 16. O Lord, truly I am thy servant, I am thy servant: Mark how the Psalmist redoubles it, I am, I am, truly I am. Redoubled refusals call for redoubled submissions. I will neither be my own master, nor my own servant. I here make a Deed of Gift of my whole self to thee, without Reservation, and without Power of Revocation. It is not enough to say this in a pang of kindness, or in a complement, as we do to men: What's more common with us, than Your servant Sir? but its a servant without service, and such servants hath God a great many, his Servants, but their own Masters; but holy David was not such a man, I am thy servant, truly I am thy servant, I am resign'd to thee, I am resolv'd for thee, thou hast boar'd my ears, Psal. 40. 6. and oblig'd me to thee for ever. I will be thine both Totally and Finally. When you thus give your Own selves to the Lord, 2 Cor. 8. 5. This is the ground and root of Uprightness.
