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II. ^*Obedience is to be yielded according to the charge given. In such charges as God giveth, or by faithful Ministers are given from God, this holdeth good without any limitation. In charges given by men it must be limited and restrained by such circumstances as are not against God and his Word.

II. ^*OBedience is to be yeelded according to the charge given. In such charges as God giveth, or by faithfull Ministers are given from God, this holdeth good without any limitation. In charges given by men it must be limited and restrained by such circumstances as are not against God and his Word.

1. *See §. 52. Obedite ad omne opus bonum. Si bonum est quod praecipit praeses jubentis obsequere voluntati. Sin malum, &c. Hier Comment. in Tit. 3.See §. 52. Obedite ad omne opus bonum. Si bonum est quod praecipit praeses jubentis obsequere voluntati. Sin malum, &c. Hier Cōment. in Tit. 3.

For the former kind of charges and directions which are Divine, these phrases of ^aNot turning to the right hand or the left: of ^bnot going beyond the word of the Lord to do less or more, or ^cto do good or bad of ones own mind, imply a precise cleaving, and close holding to Gods Word, so as we swerve from it in nothing, no not in circumstances. That first phrase of not turning to the right hand or to the left, implieth that Gods Word is as a right way wherein only we must walk to attain unto happiness: and that being in that way, we may not turn out of it on any side, any whither. The phrase is used in that promise which the Israelites made to Edom when they desired to pass through his land.