Nehemiah 10

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. X.—It is honourable to be solemnly and publicly bound in the service of God; and especially is it becoming when they, who have the lead in civil or sacred offices, or in solemn fasting, are correspondingly forward in regular covenanting with God. But, in all our covenants of duty, a respect must be had to all God’s commandments; and a peculiar guard be placed over those temptations which we have seen to be the occasion of other men’s falls, and to prove most dangerous to ourselves. They ought to be framed in direct opposition to that of which we have been guilty, or to which we are most likely to be tempted. And plainness and caution are indispensably necessary in the whole frame of them, that all who swear to them, or are bound by them, may readily know what obligations they come under. 2