A Body of Practical Divinity

X. We take Gods Name in vain, by Rash and Unlawful Vows. There is a good Vow, when a Man binds himself by Vow to do that which the Word binds him to; as if he be Sick, he Vows if God restore him, he will live a more strict holy Life, Psal. 66.13. I will pay thee my vows, which my lips have uttered when I was in trouble. But Voveri non debet quod Deo displicet: Such a Vow should not be made, as is displeasing to God: As to vow voluntary Poverty, as your Friars; or to vow to live in Nunneries. Jephthah's Vow was rash and unlawful; he vowed to the Lord •o Sacrifice that to him which he met with next, and it was his Daughter, Judges 11.31. He did ill to make the Vow, and worse to keep it: He became guilty of the Breach of the Third and Sixth Commandment.

X. We take Gods Name in vain, by Rash and Unlawful Vows. There is a good Vow, when a Man binds himself by Vow to do that which the Word binds him to; as if he be Sick, he Vows if God restore him, he will live a more strict holy Life, Psal. 66.13. I will pay thee my vows, which my lips have uttered when I was in trouble. But Voveri non debet quod Deo displicet: Such a Vow should not be made, as is displeasing to God: As to vow voluntary Poverty, as your Friers; or to vow to live in Nunneries. Iephtha's Vow was rash and unlawful; he vowed to the Lord •o Sacrifice that to him which he met with next, and it was his Daughter, Iudges 11.31. He did ill to make the Vow, and worse to keep it: He became guilty of the Breach of the Third and Sixth Commandment.

XI. When we speak evil of God, now we take his name in vain,