The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Secondly, Whatsoever his decrees are (though having no footing in the word) they are bound in conscience to obey upon pain of damnation: So that if it were possible to obey all Gods Commandments, they may be damned for want of obedience, to some one of Antichrists commands, which must needs be a miserable bondage for any man to make a new command, that is not under the command of God, and to make damnation to be the punishment of disobedience to it, then men are in danger of Damnation a hundred of ways more then for sinning against Gods Law.

Secondly, Whatsoever his decrees are (though having no footing in the word) they are bound in conscience to obey upon paine of damnation: So that if it were possible to obey all Gods Commandements, they may be damned for want of obedience, to some one of Antichrists comands, which must needs be a miserable bondage for any man to make a new command, that is not under the command of God, and to make damnation to be the punishment of disobedience to it, then men are in danger of Damnation a hundred of waies more then for sinning against Gods Law.

Thirdly, Those that are under Antichrist are under great bondage in being kept from the rule of life, from the Scriptures, Wherein the counsels of Gods will, concerning their Eternal Estate are revealed: Those that are slaves are kept in dangers, and cannot have the privileges of subjects, or of Children: So Antichrist keeps all under him in the most base slavery, in depriving of them from this privilege of Children, that they cannot know the mind of their Fathers, and the great things of God, that concerns their Eternal Estate; what man that knows any thing of those great things concerning his Eternal Estate, would be under that slavery? And yet if so be we had continued under the bondage of Antichrist, we must have been deprived of this.

Thirdly, Those that are under Antichrist are under great bondage in being kept from the rule of life, from the Scriptures, Wherein the counsels of Gods will, concerning their Eternal Estate are revealed: Those that are slaves are kept in dangers, and cannot have the priviledges of subjects, or of Children: So Antichrist keeps all under him in the most base slavery, in depriving of them from this priviledg of Children, that they cannot know the mind of their Fathers, and the great things of God, that concerns their Eternal Estate; what man that knows any thing of those great things concerning his Eternal Estate, would be under that slavery? And yet if so be we had continued under the bondage of Antichrist, we must have been deprived of this.