A young doctor vows his love to a thoughtful young woman. Coloured photolithograph.

A soldier and a girl are holding hands as he vows his affection. Lithograph.

A couple stand before a priest in a pulpit as they take their marriage vows. Engraving.

Two men making vows to the Virgin of Loreto [?]. Drawing attributed to Pietro Paolo Jacometti, 1613.

A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A marriage ceremony is performed with the priest in the pulpit and the couple standing before two cushions which they shall kneel on when they take their vows.

A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.

Jephthah makes a sacrifice of his daughter according to his rash vow. Line engraving by J.W. Cook after J. Opie.

Angelo Loerch, being run over by a horse and carriage, makes a vow to the Madonna del Parto. Oil painting, 1883.

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Vows in trouble, or a plain and practical discourse concerning the nature of vows made in trouble; and the reasonableness and necessity of a faithful performance of them. By John Horsley, A. M. Psalm lxvi. 13, 14. I will go into thy House with Burnt-Offerings: I will pay Thee my Vows which my Lips have uttered, and my Mouth hath spoken when I was in Trouble.

Vows made unto God in trouble to be religiously paid unto him. A sermon preach'd on a special occasion: but seasonable for all that have made solemn vows to God in any day of trouble. By John Webb, M.A. pastor of a church in Boston.

Vows made to God in a time of trouble, with the obligation to the performance, considered. A sermon preached on the ninth of October, 1746. Being a day appointed for a general thanksgiving, for the suppression of the late wicked rebellion. By Thomas Newman.

Jephthah's vow considered. A sermon Preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, June 8. 1766. With an appendix containing a dissertation on Lev. xxvi. 28, 29. and on the Nature and Kinds of Vows under the Mosaical Law. By Thomas Randolph, D. D. President of C. C. C. Oxford.

A select form of prayer, or, office of devotion: made use of on the last solemn and public fast: Now Published and Recommended as proper to assist all Serious and Devout Minds in recollecting and strengthening their Pious Sentiments and Vows on that Occasion. To which is added, an act of humiliation, or a Prayer more immediately adapted to the Situation and Aspect of our National Affairs at this Day.

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Vows made unto God in trouble to be religiously paid unto him. A sermon preach'd on a special occasion: but seasonable for all that have made solemn vows to God in any day of trouble. By John Webb, M.A. pastor of a church in Boston.

Vows made to God in a time of trouble, with the obligation to the performance, considered. A sermon preached on the ninth of October, 1746. Being a day appointed for a general thanksgiving, for the suppression of the late wicked rebellion. By Thomas Newman.

Jephthah's vow considered. A sermon Preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, June 8. 1766. With an appendix containing a dissertation on Lev. xxvi. 28, 29. and on the Nature and Kinds of Vows under the Mosaical Law. By Thomas Randolph, D. D. President of C. C. C. Oxford.

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Vows made unto God in trouble to be religiously paid unto him. A sermon preach'd on a special occasion: but seasonable for all that have made solemn vows to God in any day of trouble. By John Webb, M.A. pastor of a church in Boston.

Vows made to God in a time of trouble, with the obligation to the performance, considered. A sermon preached on the ninth of October, 1746. Being a day appointed for a general thanksgiving, for the suppression of the late wicked rebellion. By Thomas Newman.

Jephthah's vow considered. A sermon Preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, June 8. 1766. With an appendix containing a dissertation on Lev. xxvi. 28, 29. and on the Nature and Kinds of Vows under the Mosaical Law. By Thomas Randolph, D. D. President of C. C. C. Oxford.