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

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.

13. Moreover it is only Godliness that obeyeth with true Loyalty, and carrieth on all works methodically for the common Good. As he that will obey every Justice of Peace in all things that he commandeth, without respect to the Laws or will of the Sovereign Power, may be sooner a Traitor then truly obedient; (for every Justice or Lord may arm him against his Prince) so he that will obey the Princes of the earth, without respect to the Will or Interest of the Eternal God, will be but a Traitor to God, under pretence of obeying Princes, that are but his Officers and Servants. But the godly begin at God in their obedience; and therefore they proceed methodically, and obey men upon right grounds and in their proper places. It is not the most absolute obedience to man that is the best. He that should command men causelessly to fire his Country, or to destroy the innocent, or to ravish Virgins or mens Wives, were not to be obeyed, as Doeg