540 Serro. 24, Whether well compofed Religious Vows do not exceedingly pro_ mote Religion ? Pfal. 126. verf, 12, & 14. What AAR I render to the Lord for all his benefits to- wards me ? I will py fury won+s unto the Lord now in the pretence of all his people. Avid was no Popifh votary , nor were the Vows he is now about to pay, like the Vows of Po- pith and fnporfiitioxs votaries either in the Matter of them, or in the Objefl of them, nor in the Manner or End of them ; and Ihope you who read thefe lines are as the grearefl part of my Auditors were far enough from liking of frith Vows in others, and from lying under the enfnaring tye of any fuch Vow your felves. Since then there is fuch unlikenefs hoped from you, juflifie the un- likenefs and difparity between my difcourfe and theirs, whofe buffi. nefs is either to {late and maintain Monkifh vows or to fiate and overthrow them ; the one the work of Popifb, the other the work of Proteflant writers. In the Words which I have chofen , we have a fit occafion to fate ourozvs cafe by David's, who was mindful of his debt to theLord, and the more carefull to difcharge it becaufe i t was due kj vow. Two things noted will be a Key to open the words, fo far as we at prefent are concerned in them. i. ghat the fumme of all our Religion, is our rendring to the Lori. I might
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