In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

At every step the apostles were hounded with
that law, and yet Christ said, “Go, ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
They fought it out, and bled and died, and kept the
fight up for centuries, till the Roman Empire was
compelled to yield. That is what brought
Liberty into the World.
God was saying to Caesar, “Keep on your side
of the fence. Let My subjects teach in My realm.”
This had to be learned over and over again. It had
to be learned in the Reformation; but the liberty
that was preserved in the Dark Ages, and the
liberty that we have to-day, we owe to the
establishment of that principle that Caesar has to
do with the things of Caesar, and God with the
things of God. God will take care of His followers
in doing this, and He commands everyone of them
to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s
when he stays in his own realm.
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