[268} SERMON X. HOW DIVINE WORSHIP iS tO be acceptably performed. ECCLES. V. from verfe r, to 8. Keep thy foot when thou goeft to the houfe of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the facrfce of fools : for they con- fider not that they do evil. Be not rafh with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be h. a /ly to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of bu- finefs, and a fool's voice is known by the multitude of words. When thou voweft a vow unto God, defer not to pay it : for he bath no pleafure in fools; pay that which thou haft vowed. Better it is that thou fhouldeft not vow, than that thou fhouldeft vow, and not pay. Suer not thy mouth to caufe thy flefh to fin, neither fay thou before the angels, that it was an er- ror : wherefore fhould God be angry at 4 thy
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