Numbers 30

Willing: and not pride, nor gain, nor the like. Fourthly, the act [bind themselves] that now they are bound by their own word and promise, that they may say now, as (Psalm 56:12), your vows are upon me, or as (Numbers 30:2), if he bind his soul with a vow. Fifthly, the matter pr…

Chiefly until by the father's authority and consent, more full power be given to their children, because of their years and discretion. [Numbers 30:4. When a woman has vowed a vow to the Lord, or bound herself by a bond at her father's house in her youth, 5. If when her father h…

But our perverse and crooked nature is such, that what God commands, none are willing to follow, but what man's idle brain devises, after that men run headlong. Furthermore, God has willed this commandment of wives' obedient subjection to their husbands, to be so firmly and invi…

55. That he shave his hair after his vow is accomplished (ver. 9). 56. That every man perform his vows to God (Deuteronomy 23:23; Numbers 30:2). 57. That judgment be made of the Obligation of vows according to the Law (Numbers 30:3, 4, 5).

This implicit consent may be gathered either by his silence when he is present to see a thing done, or otherwise has knowledge thereof: or else when he is absent, by his former carriage or disposition in other like cases. The Scripture accounts a husband's silence, when he knows…

6. Repent of your forgetfulness of sacredvows. A vow is a binding ones soul to God, (Numbers 30:1). Christians, have not you since you have been bound to God, forfeited your Indentures?

5th Commandment: Honor your father, etc. He breaks this commandment: who mocks or reviles or beats his superiors (Genesis 9:22); who disobeys their lawful commandments (Romans [reconstructed: 13]:30); who is unthankful to parents and will not [reconstructed: relieve] them if nee…

To this purpose God has given special commandment in sundry places. Numbers 30:3: Whoever swears an oath, to bind his soul by a bond, he shall not break his word, but shall do, according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. Matthew 5:33: You shall not forswear yourself, but sh…

First, if he be at his own liberty, (as touching the things whereof he makes his vow,) and not under the government of a superior. Thus in the Old Testament, if a daughter had made a vow, without the consent or allowance of her father, it might not stand in effect (Numbers 30:4,…