290 How Divine Worfhipi S E R M. imagination, and as fome men are extremely X. pleafed with rovings of their fancy in fleep, nay, weakly take them for prefages of good; fo in religious exercifes, a lively and warm fancy pouring out a torrent of words is mif- taken for fervent devotion, not without imagining that a fiiperior influence contribut- eth to it ; but the characters of fincere accept- able devotion are, and by thefe we may know it, that it is always attended with the freeft, molt calm, and regular exercife of the un- derfianding, with jult fentiments concerning the perfeftions of God, and a deep reverence for them, with an affectionate fenfe of moral obligations, and a true difpofition to fulfil them univerfally, or to perform our whole duty to God and man, I fhall not now enter on the remaining part of the text, which relateth to vows, be- caufe I had lately another occafion of con - fidering that fubjeCt; only, let it full be re- membered, that we ought to form religious purpofes with mature deliberation. The great errors, againft which the preacher here warneth the worfhippers of God, are rafh- nefs and unfieadinefs, and the latter naturally followeth the other; for when in a fudden fit of warm and inconfiderate zeal, hafty refo- lutions are made, upon a cooler reflection on the
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