What inward authority has God over your hearts? Is the government of God set up in your souls? Can you with joy say, The Lord reigns, and none but he shall reign over me? The new creature coming under another government, has frames suitable to it, and delightfully owns that supreme authority, and pleases himself more in a subjection to God, than the wicked can in their slavery to sin. Do you ‘yield yourselves to God, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God’? Are the motions of your souls guided by him? You are then ‘alive from the dead;’ it is the apostle’s assertion, Rom. vi. 4. Sin does reside; but which reigns, God or lust? An usurpation may be on sin’s part, when no voluntary subjection on ours. Is it an absolute, or only a partial resignation of yourselves to him? Do you give him a moiety, or do you give him the whole? Has he the sole sovereignty?
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