A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

1. It is not free to us, Not to make them more than it is To break them, or not to keep them; and when we are called to make such Promises, and make them not, it becometh sin to us as was said. Its not free to us, whether we shall be Baptised Communicate, &c. or not; therefore, whosoever would not so engage, were to be censured and punished as utter despisers of the Lord's Covenant, Gen. 17.14. & Exod. 12.

2. They, who refuse to take them, lay themselves open to the temptation of being more easily prevailed with, not to perform these duties, or of being sooner ensnared in such sins, because they are not formally engaged by Vow against them, and so they make themselves culpably accessary to the strengthening of tentation, and weakening of resolution; to the contrary whereof, they are no doubt obliged.

2. They, who refuse to take them, lay themselves open to the temptation of being more easily prevailed with, not to perform these duties, or of being sooner insnared in such sins, because they are not formally engaged by Vow against them, and so they make themselves culpably accessary to the strengthning of tentation, and weakning of resolution; to the contrary whereof, they are no doubt obliged.

3. If you intend indeed to perform these duties, then ye may engage to do so; but if ye will not so much as Promise and engage to do them, it cannot be expected in reason that ye will Do them; especially considering that even these who honestly promise and engage, do yet notwithstanding, find a great difficulty to do and perform. O take heed that you be not, by your refusing to engage, making a back-door for your selves to go out from your duty, that so you may the more easily, and with the less challenge, shift it.