Note 18 — Chapter XV · OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD BY NATURE.
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By reason of their weakness.] If this shall seem hard to any man, I desire him with a silent thought to consider, if there were two Omnipotents, whether were bound to obey. I believe he will confess that neither is bound. If this be true, then it is also true what I have set down; that men are subject unto God, because they are not omnipotent. And truly our Saviour admonishing Paul, who at that time was an enemy to the Church, that he should not kick against the pricks; seems to require obedience from him for this cause, because he had not power enough to resist.