2. Now all things necessary to salvation are comprehended in two virtues, _faith_ and _obedience_. The latter of these, if it could be perfect, would alone suffice to preserve us from damnation; but because we have all of us been long since guilty of disobedience against God in Adam, and besides we ourselves have since actually sinned, _obedience_ is not sufficient without _remission of sins_. But this, together with our entrance into the kingdom of heaven, is the reward of _faith_; nothing else is requisite to salvation. For the kingdom of heaven is shut to none but sinners, that is to say, those who have not performed due _obedience_ to the laws; and not to those neither, if they believe the necessary articles of the Christian faith. Now, if we shall know in what points obedience doth consist, and which are the necessary articles of the Christian faith; it will at once be manifest what we must do, and what abstain from, at the command of cities and of princes. [Sidenote: What kind of obedience that is, which is required of us.] 3. But by obedience in this place is signified not _the fact_, but the _will_ and _desire_ wherewith we purpose, and endeavour as much as we can, to obey for the future. In which sense the word _obedience_ is equivalent to _repentance_; for the virtue of repentance consists not in the sorrow which accompanies the remembrance of sin; but in our conversion into the way, and full purpose to sin no more; without which that sorrow is said to be the sorrow not of a penitent, but a desperate person. But because they who love God cannot but desire to obey the divine law, and they who love their neighbours cannot but desire to obey the moral law; which consists (as hath been showed above in chap. III.) in the prohibition of _pride_, _ingratitude_, _contumely_, _inhumanity_, _cruelty_, _injury_, and the like offences, whereby our neighbours are prejudiced; therefore also _love_, or _charity_, is equivalent to the word _obedience_. Justice, also, which is a constant will of giving to every man his due, is equivalent with it. But that _faith_ and _repentance_ are sufficient for salvation, is manifest by the covenant itself of baptism. For they who were by Peter converted on the day of _Pentecost_, demanding him, what they should do: he answered (Acts ii. 38): _Repent and be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus, for the remission of your sins._ There was nothing therefore to be done for the obtaining of baptism, that is to say, for to enter into the kingdom of God, but _to repent and believe in the name of Jesus_; for the kingdom of heaven is promised by the covenant which is made in baptism. Furthermore, by the words of Christ, answering the lawyer who asked him what he should do to inherit eternal life (Luke xviii. 20): _Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery_, &c.: which refer to obedience; and (Mark x. 21): _Sell all that thou