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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	blessing_n	heaven_n	lord_n	5,021	5	4.3790	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

any neglect against a conviction of Judgment and Conscience For your own Heart and Conscience must condemn you if you consider and it betrays you if you consider not How fearful a thing is it for a man to carry his own Doom in his own Bosom to go up and down the World with a Self-condemning Heart if it be awake and which if it be not yet cannot sleep always and must awake with the greater terror at length And in so plain case 't is most certainly Gods Deputy and speaks his Mind If our hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts c. 2. 'T is that therefore the refusal whereof none of you would avow Who among us can have the confidence to stand forth and say I will be none of the Lords Would any man be content to go with this writ upon his Forehead from day to day And doth not that signifie such a refusal to be a shameful thing That must needs be an ill temper of Mind which one would be asham'd any one should know 3. And 't is a mean thing to dissemble to be willing to be thought and counted what we are not or to do what in truth we do not 4. And considering what inspection we are under 't is a vain thing For do we not know that eyes which are as a flame of fire behold us and pierce into our very Souls Do we not know all things in us are naked and manifest to him with whom we have to do And that he discerns it if there be any heart among us that is not sincere in this thing 5. Consider that this is the very design of the Gospel you live under What doth it signifie or intend but to recal Apostate Creatures back again to God What is the Christian Religion you profess but a State of devotedness to God under the conduct and thorough the mediation of Christ You frustrate the Gospel and make your Religion a nullity and an empty name till you do this 6. And how will you lift up your heads at last in the great day and before this God the judge of all You cannot now plead ignorance If perhaps any among you have not been formerly so expresly call'd and urg'd to this yielding your selves to God now you are and from his own plain Word 't is chargd upon you Will not this be remembred hereafter What will you say when the great God whose Creature you are speaks to you with the voice of Thunder and bids you gird up your Loins and give him an answer Were you not on such a day in such a place demanded and claim'd in my Name Were you not told were you not convinc't you ought to yield your selves to me and yet you did it not Are you prepar'd to contest with your Maker Where is your right where is your power to stand against me in this contest 7. But if you sincerely yield your selves the main Controversie is at end between the Great God and you All your former sins are pardon'd and done away at once Those glad-tydings you have often heard that import nothing but glory to God in the highest peace on earth and good will towards men plainly shew that the Great God whom you had offended hath no design to destroy you but only to make you yield and give him back his own Though you have formerly liv'd a wandering life and been as a Vagabond on the Earth from your true Owner it will be all forgotten How readily was the returining Prodigal receiv'd and so will you How quiet rest will you have this night when upon such terms there is a reconciliation between God and you You have given him his own and he is pleas'd and most of all for this that he hath you now to save you You were his to destroy before now you are his to save He could easily destroy you against your will but 't is only with your will he having made you willing that he must save you And his bidding you yield implies his willingness to do so O how much of Gospel is there in this invitation to you to yield your selves to God! consider it as the voice of Grace Will he that bids a poor wretch yield it self reject or destroy when it doth so 8. And how happily may you now live the rest of your days in this World. You will live under his care for will he not take care of his own those that are of his own House An Infidel would You are now of his Family under his immediate Government and under his continual Blessing And were you now to give an account where you have been to day and what you have been doing If you say you have been engag'd this day in a solemn treaty with the Lord of Heaven and Earth about yielding your selves to him And it be further askt Well and what was the issue Have you agreed Must you any of you be oblig'd by the truth of the case to say No astonishing answer What! Hast thou been treating with the Great God the God of thy life and not agreed What man Did he demand of thee any unreasonable thing Only to yield my self Why that was in all the World the most reasonable thing Wretched Creature whither now wilt thou go What wilt thou do with thy self Where wilt thou lay thy hated head But if you can say Blessed be God I gladly agreed to the Proposal He gave me the Grace not to deny him Then may it be said this was a good days work and you will have cause to bless God for this day as long as you have a day to live FINIS Joh. 4. 24. Rom. 11. 36. Act. 17. 28. * The Gallican Church c. † Du Pin c. Deut. 30. 11 12 c. Rom. 10. 6 7 8. Jam. 1. 21. Psa. 37. 31. 1 Sam. 12. 23. Psal. 68. 18. Eph. 4. 11. Rom. 1. 18. 2. 14. 2 Cor. 4. 2. Eph. 4. 18. Col. 1. 21. Rom. 8. 7. Rom. 8. 7. latter part Verse 2. Psal. 73. 25. John 14. 6. 1 John 2. 23. Rom. 14. 5. Second Sermon Jerem. 31. 18 19. Psa. 110. 3. Prov. 1. 24. Psal. 118. 1 Chron. 29. 9. See the Treatise of Self-dedication from p. 71. to 103. Jer. 50. 5. 1 Joh. 3. 20. Heb. 4. 12.