• We know that God heareth not Sinners; but if any Man be a Worshipper of God, and doth his Will, him he heareth.

Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye afk not; ye afk and receive not, because ye afk amifs, that ye may confume it upon your Lufts.

"He that turneth away his Ear from hearing the Law, even his Prayer fhall be an Abomination to the Lord; but the Prayer of the Upright is his Delight.

w The Sacrifice of the Wicked is Abomination: How much more when he bringeth it with a wicked Mind?

* If I regard Iniquity in my Heart, the Lord will not hear me.

They have no Knowledge that pray unto a God that cannot fave.

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Call now, if there be any that will anfwer thee; and to which of the Saints wilt thou turn ? a O thou that hearest Prayer, unto thee fhall all Flesh come; even to thee fhall all Men come; and unto thee every Knee fhall bow, every Tongue fhall fwear: For thou art God, and there is none elfe.

Daths.

OATHS, Vows, and COVENANTS.

b Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and fwear by his Name.

He that fweareth in the Earth, fhall fwear by the God of Truth. For Men verily fwear by the greater; and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an End of all Strife.

d The Lord fware, and will not repent: And because he could fware by no greater, he fware by himself.

• Inafmuch as not without an Oath Jefus was made Priest, by so much was he made a Surety of a better Testament.

f Ye shall not fwear by the Name of the Lord falfely or deceitfully. Thou shalt not forfwear thyfelf, but fhalt perform unto the Lord thy Oaths. For the Lord is Witnefs, if we do not according to the Words we have Spoken.

If a Man trefpass against his Neighbour, and an Oath be laid upon him to caufe him to fwear; then God will hear in Heaven, and do, and judge his Servants; condemning the Wicked, to bring his Way upon his Head; and justifying the Righteous, to give him according to his Righteoufnefs.

h He that fweareth to his own Hurt, and changeth not, fhall abide in the Tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell in his holy Hill.

i Wo unto them which swear by the Name of the Lord, and make mention of God, but not in Truth, nor in Righteousness.

* Swear not at all vainly.

Ifa. 65. 16. Heb. 6. 16. e Heb. 7. 20, 22. 33. Judges 11. 10. 4. I.

i Ifa. 48. I.

d Heb. 7. 21. Heb. 6. 13.

f Lev. 19. 12. Pfal. 24. 4
g1 Kings 8. 31, 32.
k Mat. 5. 34 :

Mat. 5.

h Pfal. 15

Abo

Above all Things, my Brethren, fwear not: Neither by Heaven, for it is God's Throne; nor by the Earth, for it is his Footstool: Neither fhalt thou fwear by thy Head, because thou canst not make one Hair white or black; neither by any other Oath. But let your Communication be, Yea, Yea; Nay, Nay; and let your Yea be Yea, and your Nay, Nay, left ye fall into Condemnation : For whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil.

m Every one that fweareth vainly or falfely, fhall be cut off; for because of swearing the Land mourneth.

n When thou fhalt vow a Vow unto the

Vorus. Lord thy God, thou shalt not flack to pay it. That which is gone out of thy Lips thou fhalt keep and perform, according as thou haft promifed with thy Mouth: For the Lord thy God will furely require it of thee.

• If any Man vow a Vow unto the Lord, or fwear an Oath to bind his Soul with a Bond, he fhall not break his Word; he fhall do according to all that proceedeth out of his Mouth.

P If a Woman vow a Vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a Bond, being in her Father's House, in her Youth; and her Father hear her Vow, and he fhall hold his Peace at her; then every Bond wherewith fhe had bound her Soul fhall ftand. But if her Father difallow her in the Day that he heareth, not any of her Vows fhall ftand; and the Lord fhall forgive her, because her Father difallowed her.

And if she had an Hufband when the vowed, or uttered aught out of her Lips wherewith the bound her Soul; and her Hufband heard it, and held his Peace at her in the Day that he heard it; then her Vows thall ftand. But if her Husband difallow her on the Day that he heard it; then he fhall make her Vow of none Effect; and the Lord fhall forgive her. If her Hufband altogether hold his Peace at her, from Day to Day, then he eftablifheth all her Vows: But if he thall any ways make them void, after that he hath heard them, then he fhall bear her Iniquity.

When thou vowest a Vow unto God, defer not to pay it: For he hath no Pleasure in Fools; pay that thou haft vowed. Better it is that thou fhouideft not vow, than that thou shouldest vow, and not pay.

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Thy Vows are upon me, O God; I will render Praises unto thee. My Praise fhall be of thee in the great Congregation; I will pay my Vows before them that fear him..

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Render unto God the Things that are God's.

It is a Snare to the Man who devoureth that which is holy, and after Vows to make Inquiry. Thou that abhorreft Idols, doft thou commit Sacrilege?

* Ye shall not rob God in Tithes and Offerings.

y Take heed unto yourselves, left ye Covenant:. forget the Covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you to perform, even ten Commandinents.

Be ye mindful always of his Covenant; the Word which he commanded to a thousand Generations; even of the Covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his Oath to Ifaac, and confirmed the fame to Jacob for a Law.

* Blessed is the Man, whosoever he be, whether Ifraelite or Stranger, that joineth himself to the Lord; and taketh hold of his Covenant, even that everlasting Covenant, which God hath made with us in Chrift; the new Covenant, of which Jefus is the Mediator.

b Come, therefore, and let us join ourselves unto the Lord, in a perpetual Covenant that fhall not be forgotten.

Baptifm.

BAPTISM and the LORD'S SUPPER.

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• Jefus commanded his Difciples to baptize all Nations, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft.

He hath faid alfo, That except a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."