To that Caesar let us never bow the knee. Render to him all that he
deserves--the homage of common courtesy, common respectability, common
charity--not in reverence for his wisdom and strength, but in pity for
his ignorance and weakness. But render always to God the things which
are God's. That duty, my good friends, lies on us, as on all mankind
still, from our cradle to our grave, and after that through all eternity.
Let us go back, or rather, let us go home to the eternal laws of God,
which were, ages before we were born, and will be, ages after we are
dead--to the everlasting Rock on which we all stand, which is the will
and mind of our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, to whom all power is
given (as He said Himself) in heaven and on earth. And we have need to
do so, for in such times of change as these are, there will always be too
many who fancy that changes in society and government change their duty
about religion, and are, some of them, sorely puzzled as to their duty to
God: and others ready to take advantage of the change to throw off their
duty to God, and run into licence and schism and fanaticism.
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