56o Whether well compofed Religious Vows Serm. 34 20,3 1,22,. God full be his God, and then the tenth of all he bath fhall be his. Davids, For all his benefits, is as much as according to all his benefits, and chat fpeaks proportion and commen'uratenefs. Take care to this, for others willobferve, and enquire into it. They will weigh thefe two, thy mercy, and thy gratitude do thou do it firfl, left thou be (hawed, left God be provoked, and thou bepunifhed, for as good a mat, & as great as thou who ere thou art, who read. ell this, met wich ail thefe, with fhame, wish the anger of his God, and with a puni(hment too on him for want of this. See Hez,ekiah's fault and punifhment, 2 Chron. 32.25. Don't fall fhort of " Hea- .*0-agthirttIS. thens, who knew this and obferved it as their rule, and have bran - E+a. Sordidam ded fuch who deviate from it, be careful) thou put not off a mercy rum ten mum- that lives many years with thee with a dayes entertainment, or weeks, giolignifica- or moneths lodging with thee. bans. Erafn. Secondly, Be careful/ that thou make thy TTow fa, that they may be Adagior. chi'. thy witneffes whom God makes, be careful' thou maze them witneffes 2. cent. 7. Ad. of thy performing, whom God made witneffes of thy ftreits, and 35. thou madeft wicneffes of thy Vowes. A man that would have his credit in his truth to his word kept up, would choofe them witceffes of his performing, who were witneffes of his promife ; I think Da- vid took this h.°.d in his rendring and paying his Vowes, I will do it (faith he,) now in the pretence of his people, Verf. 14. The peop`e were witneTs to his flreights, Prayers and Vowes, and he will honour Re- hgion by performing in their fight what he fealed, figned and de':iver- ed, what he Vowed to Lord. Seek not more than providence makes confciowc to thy Vosges left this be interpreted ofientation, ar;d vain, felt- glorying, take fo many, left the good example be loft, or thou fuf- pefled of falfifying thy Vow. Briefly and plainly, doll thou on a tick bed make thy Vow before thy Family ? before the Neighbourhood ! be careful! to perform it before them, let them fee thou art what thou Vowedfl ro be. This care in thy Vow will be a means to make it moll to the advantage of Religion, whilft all that heard or knew thy Vow, bear thee tettimony that thou art thankfull ; and more thou feekelt not, left thou be fufp c _d to be proud : thus Religions g- atitude and humility are fer forth ; thus thougivell othersoccafion toglorsfie thy Father who is in Heaven. Do well advifed and compoftd Vowes fo much promote Religion, when well and aithfully kept : are they alto fuch faded aed inviola- ble bonds? Then look what Volans you are under, look how you have performed them. It is time to view what you fairly promtfed for ad- vancing
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