¡60 ` d treatife of Cen, c ence. riven unto them. The Papiffs speak blafphemie in faying their Pope can make laws under pain of damnation to be kept : Our Saviour Chrift maketh this a propertie oacly of God Fear net hips that eau, 11 the iedie, ma there is all that he can do : bet fear himwhe cilia call betbbase andfoul inte hell Jpi :into you, Fear kim, Luke i 2. 4. As if hehad fail, Men can reach no further then the bodie, and their punifhments can go no further then the death of the bodìe. rfe 2. 2. This teacheth us what to do if men thould command any thing which is unlawful! for us to perform : (Suppofè there fhould be any filch humane commands as are repugnant to Gods.) In this cafe ye fee we muff obey God rather then mens ; nay, fúffer lolíe of goods, loffè of libertie, yea loge of life, rather then obey the commandments of mes, in cafe they be contrarie to the commandments of God. Ye may reade a lamentable example in Ephraim ; They were utterly def{royed for obeying their King rather then :'their God : The King com- manded to worfhip the calves, and to go unto Bethel and not to Jerufalem to vaorj ip : they yielded to his commandment , anddid fo ; O thought they, we 11,411 di/pleafe the King ifwe donot. For this (inne of theirs they were broken in judgement, 'Hof. S. z i . Ephraim is deßroyed and kroken in jsdgeMent, becanfe hewillingly walked after the commAndment. Beloved. Gods commandment is fovereigne, and the fupreme binder of confcince : Whatever commandment is repugnant to Gods word, wo to us if we do it ; nay, though it be to fave our goods or our lives. It is true, we muffgive to Cefar the things that are Cefars; but fo as withal! we muff be lure togive to Ged the tb.mss slow are Geds. rfe 3 3. This comforteth Gods people againfi the calumnies and Handers of wicked and ungodly men that upbraid them for their obedience to God. O fay they, re irregular and defpifers ofautboritie J fay, this is comfort to thegodly, that God is able to bear them out in obeying him rather then men. Gods word is the fupreme binder of confcience and therefore, what- evet men thinkoffuch, they are abfolutely bound to obeyGod. If
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