The Answer.
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The Answer.
To answer this Objection, we must remember that there is a twofold obedience, Active and Passive.
The Active obedience is to do what we are required: which obedience we ought to yield to our Sovereign when he commands that which is lawful.
The Active obedience is to do what we are required: which obedience we ought to yeeld to our Soveraigne when he commands that which is lawfull.
The Passive obedience, is with meekness and constancy to bear the afflictions whereunto God hath appointed us, 1 Thes. 3. 3. Which obedience we ought to yield unto our Sovereign when he commands that which is unlawful. Thus Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego willingly submitted themselves unto Nebuchadnezzar, to be cast into the fiery Furnace, rather then to worship the golden Image, Dan. 3. 17, 18. And Daniel willingly submitted himself unto Darius, to be cast into the Den of Lions, rather then to observe his idolatrous decree, Dan. 6. 7, 10.
The Passive obedience, is with meeknesse and constancy to beare the afflictions whereunto God hath appointed us, 1 Thes. 3. 3. Which obedience we ought to yeeld unto our Soveraigne when he commands that which is unlawfull. Thus Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego willingly submitted themselves unto Nebuchadnezzer, to be cast into the fiery Furnace, rather then to worship the golden Image,