5 6t , Whether well com,no fed Religious Vow. s Senn. 2,4, ten fold his confcience at every price to gain fix pence, by an untruth and lye, then if this pltfnge be outlived, will keep a good confcience. In. a word, A fäck bed makes a f nner fic/e of his finne, and feldome fails to male him Vow aga nft it. Now Reader what thinkeit thou ? Vowes or en Nowes ?art thou under any or no ? I am perfwaded now thou canft not deny it ; methinks I could believe I heard thee fay, fuch a Feaver, fuch an Ague, the final( Pox, a Surefet, the Pe- flilence, or fome fuch diieafe, made me Vow to be anoth.:r man, to deilroy finne, to exercife grace, to love God, to hate Jut}, to be ho- ly and heavenly, Now thou feet thy bond, where is thy payment of thy debt ? Ob how few do well keep any, how much fewer do well keep their lick bed Vowes, as if thefe Vowes wen? as fickty as their 'rakers, and doomed to as short a life as the lick Votary thought he had been doomed to. Reader thy confcience tells` thee what thou canft anfwer or what thou mutt confefs in this matter, and up- on thy confciences anfwer I have advice for thee if thou art con - fcious. r. of total( neglet, go .4eedily on thy knees, blefr in,írinite patience, humble thy felf before infinite grace, get out thy pardon, and whilft God faith by me, by thefe lines defer not to pay, be thou honed to thy word thankfull to thy Grad, advantageous to Religion, and an example of reformation left next ficknefs be thy death, and thy Vowes be thy (inn:, which Phut out thy hopes of praying and fpeed- ing: God delights not to anfwer fuch fools, thou tnaift find Motives enough to haften thee to this duty, from Eccl. 5,2,4,5,6. which I commend to thy thoughts with thefe Qu ries. I. Is not God in Heaven and thou on earth ? 2. And, Is not thy Vow made to thid great God ? 3. And, is not this Vow thy voluntary debt ? And 4. Doth God require pre feast payment ? Or indeed 5. Wilt thou worfe thy condition by Vowing ? Or 6 Wilt thou provoke Gods anger and di fpleafure ? 7. Dar'fi thou venture on threatned deftrrdflion ? Thefe are Solomon's Motives to a pundluall and prefent pay- ment of Vowes I offer them to awake thee from neglect of thy Vowes. Or, Secondly, Haft thou Vowed ? andperformed in part but not fully ? haft thou done fotnewhat ! but not all of that thou haft protnifed, and Vowed ? I advife, I. See what hindred, waft theft raft i* promit ng more than thou conldf
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