But this difficulty of obeying both God and the civil sovereign on earth, to those that can distinguish between what is “necessary,” and what is not “necessary for their reception into the kingdom of God,” is of no moment. For if the command of the civil sovereign be such, as that it may be obeyed without the forfeiture of life eternal; not to obey it is unjust; and the precept of the apostle takes place: “Servants obey your masters in all things”; and “Children obey your parents in all things”; and the precept of our Saviour, “The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ chair; all therefore they shall say, that observe and do.” But if the command be such as cannot be obeyed, without being damned to eternal death; then it were madness to obey it, and the counsel of our Saviour takes place ( Matt. 10:28), “Fear not those that kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.” All men therefore that would avoid, both the punishments that are to be in this world inflicted, for disobedience to their earthly sovereign, and those that shall be inflicted in the world to come, for disobedience to God, have need be taught to distinguish well between what is, and what is not necessary to eternal salvation.