CHAP. XXIV. Examples of Gods judgements against Perjury,
SWearing, Cursing, and Perjury are such God∣provoking and Heaven-outfacing sinnes, that the Lord doth not only reserve wrath for these his ene∣mies in the world to come, but many times also even in this world he takes some of the eminentest of these sinners, and (as it were) hangs them up in Gibbets, to be monuments of his heavy wrath, and indignation, for the terrour of others, that they may hear and fear, and do no more so wickedly: as these ensuing Examples may sufficiently evince.
It's a great sinne, 1 Tim. 1. 9. 10. Lev. 6. 3. Jer. 23. 10, Hos. 10. 4.
Forbidden, Lev. 19. 12. Mat. 5. 33.
Threatened, Jer. 5. 2, and 7. 9. Mal. 3. 5. Zach. 5. 3, 4 Hos. 10. 4.
Scriptural examples, Princes, and people, Jer. 34 10, 11, 17. Zedekiah, Ezek. 17. 18, 19. Saul, 2 Sam. 21. 1, 2. [ 1]
Agesilaus being sent with a great Army from Spar∣ta into Asia Minor against Tissaphernes the King of Persiu's Leiutenant there: Tissaphernes, desired to know the reason of his coming, Agesilaus answered, that it was to let the Grecian Cities free: Tissaphernes in∣treated