A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

So though Zedekiah was the King of Babylons Captive, force could not excuse his perjury and Covenant-breaking, but God severely condemned and avenged it.

So that every Subject that hath but bound himself in Allegiance to his Sovereign, is under such an Obligation as to a true Believer is more dreadful to violate, then it is to suffer death.

So that every Subject that hath but bound himself in Allegiance to his Soveraign, is under such an Obligation as to a true Believer is more dreadful to violate, then it is to suffer death.

Yea God hath written such a Law against Perjury, even in Nature it self, that he must needs be afraid of it, that is not a flat Atheist, lest his appeal to God, do bring the vengeance of God upon him: And in this life the perjured ordinarily meet with that Divine revenge which is the fore-runner of eternal vengeance: The perjured are unfit for humane Society; hated by God, and never more to be trusted by man, till sound Repentance make a change: Which made Augustine determine, that he that urgeth another to forswear himself, is as much worse then a murderer, as killing the soul is worse then killing the Body. Seeing then that Religion doubleth these sacred bonds, and casteth Hell-fire into the face of the perjured and perfidious, it must needs be a singular preserver of Kingdoms and all Societies, which fall in pieces where these bonds are loosed; and fall into the hands of God, who is a consuming fire, especially to perjured men.

Yea God hath written such a Law against Perjury, even in Nature it self, that he must needs be afraid of it, that is not a flat Atheist, lest his appeal to God, do bring the vengeance of God upon him: And in this life the perjured ordinarily meet with that Divine revenge which is the fore-runner of eternal vengeance: The perjured are unfit for humane Society; hated by God, and never more to be trusted by man, till sound Repentance make a change: Which made Augustine determine, that he that urgeth another to forswear himself, is as much worse then a murtherer, as killing the soul is worse then killing the Body. Seeing then that Religion doubleth these sacred bonds, and casteth Hell-fire into the face of the perjured and perfidious, it must needs be a singular perserver of Kingdoms and all Societies, which fall in pieces where these bonds are loosed; and fall into the hands of God, who is a consuming fire, especially to perjured men.