An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…

'Tis true thy obedience to public authority is lawful and necessary; for God doth require it, Tit. 3. 1. yet before thou yield thy active obedience thereunto, be sure that •oth the command and authority to which thou yieldest, and also the thing commanded & authorized, be agreeable to the Laws of God, and warrantable by the Laws of the Land▪ wherein thou livest. For if the public command be unlawful, then is thy obedience thereunto also unlawful; as, the obedience of the men of Israel in going to their tents, and forsaking of David their King at the command of traitorous Sheba, was plain rebellion, 2 Sam. 20. 1, 2. Or, if the thing commanded be unlawful, then is thy obedience also unlawful; as, those men sinned in casting the three Children into the fiery furnace, at the commandment of Nebuchada•zzar, and for their wickedness were slain by the flame of the fire, Dan. 3. 20, 22.

'Tis true thy obedience to publique authority is lawful and necessary; for God doth require it, Tit. 3. 1. yet before thou yeeld thy active obedience thereunto, be sure that •oth the command and authority to which thou yeeldest, and also the thing commanded & authorized, be agreeable to the Lawes of God, and warrantable by the Lawes of the Land wherein thou livest. For if the publique command be unlawfull, then is thy obedience thereunto also unlawfull; as, the obedience of the men of Israel in going to their tents, and forsaking of David their King at the command of traiterous Sheba, was plaine rebellion,