“Now, if this that hath been said be not sufficient to
evince a necessity of our obedience, we must suppose ourselves to speak
with a sort of men who regard neither the sovereignty, nor love, nor glory
of God, Father, Son, or Holy Ghost. Let men say what they please, though
our obedience should be all lost, and never regarded (which is impossible,
for God is not unjust, to forget our labour of love), yet here is a
sufficient bottom, ground, and reason of yielding more obedience unto God
than ever we shall do whilst we live in this world. I speak also only of
gospel grounds of obedience, and not of those that are natural and legal,
which are indispensable to all mankind.