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| Chapter XIV.—We should obey God rather than the authors of sedition.
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Chapter XIV.—We should obey God
rather than the authors of sedition.
It is right and
holy therefore, men and brethren, rather to obey God than to follow those
who, through pride and sedition, have become the leaders of a detestable
emulation. For we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger,
if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at
exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good. Let
us be kind one to another after the pattern of the tender mercy and
benignity of our Creator. For it is written, “The kind-hearted
shall inhabit the land, and the guiltless shall be left upon it, but
transgressors shall be destroyed from off the face of it.”58
And again [the Scripture] saith, “I saw
the ungodly highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon: I
passed by, and, behold, he was not; and I diligently sought his place,
and could not find it. Preserve innocence, and look on equity: for there
shall be a remnant to the peaceful man.”59
| 59 Ps. xxxvii.
35–37. “Remnant” probably refers either to
the memory or posterity of the righteous. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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