The danger of taking God's name in vain. As it was delivered in a…

1. Keep up the Fear and Reverence of God in your hearts, be sure that it be there planted by or in a •rue work of Conversion, & then take care to keep it up in a vigorous disposit•••; •f we do indeed maintain this inward respect to him which is his due, it will be of great efficacy to curb in the exorbitancy of our tongues; our Saviour Christ hath taught us, […] out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, so that if we can keep irreverence from our hearts, our tongues will not be in danger of being influenced from thence▪ the best cure and preventive of this sin is prescribed to us in the Prophet, Isa. 8▪13. Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be your ⟨p. 28⟩fear, and your dread; and for this end, be frequently thinking what a God he is: meditate much, how great, how mighty, how holy, how just, how Omniscient he is, and argue from thence how fearful a thing it must be to fall into his revenging hand, which all they must expect to do, who presume to pollute his Name with their defiled Lips.

1. Keep up the Fear and Reverence of God in your hearts, be sure that it be there planted by or in a •rue work of Conversion, & then take care to keep it up in a vigorous disposit•••; •f we do indeed maintain this inward respect to him which is his due, it will be of great efficacy to curb in the exo•bi•ancy of our tongues; our Saviour Christ hath taught us, 〈…〉 out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, so that if we can keep irreverence from our hearts, our tongues will not be in danger of being influenced from thence▪ the best cure and preventive of this sin is prescribed to us in the Prophet,