Christian constancy crowned by Christ A funeral sermon on Apocalypse 2.10. preached at the…Christian constancy crovvned by Christ A funerall sermon on Apocalyps 2.10. preached at the…

4. As there is nothing among men generally more odious, than falsehood in friendship; infidelity in those that we are in league and amity withal: ^yThy confederates, saith the Prophet, have dealt ⟨p. 6⟩treacherously with thee. And, ^xIt was not a profest enemy, saith David, that did me this wrong: for then could I well have brooked it: but it was thou, my guide, my companion, my sworn brother; as we say. So there is nothing that God taketh to heart more, or can worse endure, than ^ydisloyalty and breach of covenants in those that be in league with him. ^zThose, saith he, that have violated the covenant which they solemnly made with me, when they ^acut the calf in twain, and passed between the two sides of it; I proscribe them to the famine, the sword, and the plague; and their carcasses shall lie rotting above ground unburied. ^bBetter not to make covenant with God at all, than to make, and not keep.

4. As there is nothing among men generally more odious, than falshood in friendship; infidelitie in those that wee are in league and amitie withall: ^yThy confederates, saith the Prophet, haue dealt ⟨p. 6⟩treacherously with thee. And, ^xIt was not a profest enemy, saith Dauid, that did me this wrong: for then could I well haue brooked it: but it was thou, my guide, my companion, my sworne brother; as we say. So there is nothing that God taketh to heart more, or can worse endure, than