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A44698 Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 \"Yield your selves to God\" / by J.H. ... Howe, John, 1630-1705. 1688 (1688) Wing H3044; ESTC R14684 27,043 72

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TWO SERMONS Preached at THURLOW IN SUFFOLK On those words Rom. 6. 13. Yield your selves to God By J. H. Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside 1688. To the much honoured Bartholomew Soame of Thurlow Esq and Susanna his pious Consort My Worthy Friends I Have at length yielded to your Importunity and do here offer these Sermons to publick view and your own which were one day the last Summer preached under your roof attributing more to your pious design herein than to my own reasons against it I no farther insist upon the incongruity having divers years ago published a small Treatise of Self-dedication now again to send abroad another on the same Subject For the way of Tractation is here very different this may fall into the hands of divers who have never seen the other and however they who have read the other have it in their choice whether they will trouble themselves with this or no. And tho' your purpose which you urged me with of lodging one of these little Books in each family of the hearers might have been answered by so disposing of many a better Book already extant yet you having told me how greatly you observed them to be moved by these plain Discourses considering the peculiar advantage of reading what had been with some acceptance and relish heard before through that greater vigour that accompanies the Ordinance of Preaching to an Assembly than doth usually the solitary first reading of the same thing I was not willing to run the hazard of incurring a guilt by refusing a thing so much desired and which through God's blessing might contribute something tho' in never so low a degree to the saving of mens Souls I could not indeed as I told you undertake to recollect every thing that was spoken according to that latitude and freedom of expression wherewith it was fit to inculcate momentous things to a plain Countrey-Auditory But I have omitted nothing I could call to mind Being little concern'd that the more curious may take notice with dislike how much in a work of this kind I prefer plainness tho' they may call it rudeness of speech before that which goes for wisdom of words or the most laboured Periods May you find an abundant blessing on your Houshold for the sake of the Ark which you have so piously and kindly received And whereas by your means the parts about you have an help for the spreading the Knowledge of God among them added to what they otherwise more statedly enjoy may the blessing of Heaven succeed all sincere endeavours of both sorts to the more general introducing of the new man which is renew'd in knowledge where there is neither Jew nor Greek Circumcision nor Uncircumcision but Christ is all and in all To whose Grace you are with sincere affection and great sense of your kindness earnestly recommended by Your much oblig'd faithful Servant in Christ John Howe These Books Written by the same Author are sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside 1. THE Blessedness of the Righteous The Vanity of this Mortal Life On Psalm 17. ver 15. and Psalm 89. 47. 2. Of Thoughtfulness for the Morrow with an Appendix concerning the Immoderate Desire of Fore-knowing things to come 3. The Redeemer's Tears wept over lost Souls in a Treatise on Luke 19. 41 42. With an Appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the Sin against the Holy Ghost and how God is said to Will the Salvation of them that perish 4. Of Charity in Reference to other Mens Sins 5. A Sermon directing what we are to do after a strict inquiry whether or no we truly love God. A Discourse of the Saving Grace of God by David Clarkson Minister of the Gospel The Conversion of the Soul to which is added A Warning to Sinners to prepare for Judgment by Nath. Vincent Minister of the Gospel A Discourse of Old Age tending to the Instruction Caution and Comfort of Aged Persons Baptismal Bonds Renewed being Meditations upon Psalm 50. ver 5. By O. Heywood Minister of the Gospel Rom. 6 part of the 13th verse Yield your selves to God. THese are but a few words but I can speak to you of no greater or more important thing than I am to press upon you from them this day We are above taught how absurd it is to continue in sin whereto we are avowedly dead v. 1 2. as is signified by our Baptism together with our entrance into a new state of life and that in both we are to be conformed unto the Death and Resurrection of Christ v. 3 4 5. so that sin ought now no more to have a new dominion over us than Death can again have over him v. 6 7 8 9 10. We are therefore exhorted so to account of our selves and of our present state That we are dead to sin but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord and thereupon never more to let sin govern us or reign over us or yield to it verse 11 12 13. former part But what then How are we otherwise to dispose of our selves If we may not yield our selves to the service of sin what are we then to do with our selves The Text tells us and the very reason of the thing shews it But yield your selves to God c. The Subject to be discours'd of is an express Precept charging it upon us all as our unquestionable duty to yield our selves to God which therefore it can only be our business in speaking to this Text to explain and apply 1. We are to explain it Whosoever shall charge upon others such a duty not obvious perhaps at the first view in the full extent of it to every ones understanding may well expect to be askt But what do you mean by this Precept or what doth this yielding our selves to God signifie And here are two things to be opened to you 1. How or under what notions we are to consider God and our selves in this matter 2. What our yielding our selves to him so consider'd must include 1. How we are to consider or look upon God in this affair You are to consider him both as he is in himself and according to the relations he bears to you whether before your yielding your selves to him or in and upon your so doing 1. As he is in himself You that have heard or now read what I have said and do write here make a stand and bethink your selves a while What! Are you about yielding your selves to God Sure you ought to be thinking of it as soon as you hear his claim laid to you But do you now know with whom you have to do Too many have the Name of God that great and awful Name in their mouth or ear and have no correspondent thought in their mind it passes with them as a transient sound as soon over as another common word of no