Obedience to Law by Chas. G. Finney

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · February 19, 1908

Obedience to Law.

By Chas. G. Finney

UNNECESSARY legislation is invalid legislation. Unnecessary government is tyranny. It can in no case be founded on right. It should, however, be observed that it is often, and in the government of God universally, true that the sovereign, and not the subject, is to be the judge of what is necessary legislation and government. Under no government, therefore, are laws to be despised or rejected because we are unable to see at once their necessity, and hence their wisdom. Unless they are palpably unnecessary, and therefore unwise and unjust, they are to be respected and obeyed as a less evil than contempt and disobedience, tho at present we are unable to see their wisdom. Under the government of God there can never be any doubt nor of course any ground for distrust and hesitancy as it respects the duty of obedience.—Rev. Chas. G. Finney.