14. Which my lips have uttered, or
vehemently declared—blurted out. What we were so eager to vow, we should be
equally earnest to perform. And my mouth hath spoken. He had made the
promise public, and had no desire to go back; an honest man is always ready to
acknowledge a debt. When I was in trouble. Distress suggested the vow;
God in answer to the vow removed the distress, and now the votary desires to
make good his promise. It is well for us to remember that we were in trouble:
proud spirits are apt to speak as if the road had always been smooth for them,
as if no dog dare bark at their nobility, and scarce a drop of rain would
venture to besprinkle their splendor; yet these very upstarts were probably
once so low in spirits and condition that they would have been glad enough of
the help of those they now despise. All people have trouble, but they act not
in the same manner while under it; the profane take to swearing and the godly
to praying. Both bad and good have been known to resort to vowing, but the one
is a liar unto God, and the other a conscientious respecter of his word.
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