[ 1698] The Commands of God to be obeyed, not questioned.
IT was judiciously said by a Wise man of later dayes,* 1.1 That if he were en∣joyned by his Superiours to put forth to Sea in a Ship, which had neither Mast nor Tackling, nor any other furniture, he would do it; And being asked, What wisdome there were in so doing? answered; The Wisdome must be in him that hath power to command,* 1.2 not in him which is bound to obey. Thus it is, that Men having an expresse Commandement in Gods Word to do thus and thus, must not gainsay and overthrow all with their own Worldly wisdome and Fleshly reason; Obedience must be no disputant, no framer of excuses; If the Captain command the Souldier a piece of service,* 1.3 Must he tell him why? Is it not enough for the Centurion to say to his servant, Do this, and he doth it; Must the Subject obey his Prince in nothing, but when he is of his Councel? But if with Men it were so, yet with God it may not so be, of whom it is sufficient for us but to know, that we are commanded to obey whatsoever his Will and Pleasure is.