Promise-keeping a great duty. As it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel…

1. That in all the promises we make, we owe a Subordination to the will of God; and therefore we ought to have an eye or respect thereunto always in our making of them: There was a Law in Israel that if an inferior person made a vow (and a promise partakes in the nature of a vow) the Superior, who had a power over that person, might vacate the vow, upon the hearing of it, if he would; and we are all of us Gods Servants, and he hath incomparably more power over us then any second being can have over his fellow creature▪ every promise is therefore presumed to be ⟨p. 7⟩the disposal of Gods pleasure; and it is […] for us, in acknowledgement thereof, explici••• to say if God will; and there is a double respect to the will of God which is here to […] had.

1. That in all the promises we make, we owe a Subordination to the will of God; and therfore we ought to have an eye or respect thereunto always in our making of them: There was a Law in Israel that if an inferiour person made a vow (and a promise partakes in the nature of a vow) the Superiour, who had a power over that person, might vacate the vow, upon the hearing of it, if he would; and we are all of us Gods Servants, and he hath incomparably more power over us then any second being can have over his fellow creature▪ every promise is therefore presumed to be ⟨p. 7⟩the disposal of Gods pleasure; and it is 〈…〉 for us, in acknowldgement thereof, explici••• to say if God will; and there is a double r••spect to the will of God which is here to 〈…〉 had.