Francis Schaeffer on Civil Disobedience

Schaeffer writes,

Please read most thoughtfully what I am going to say in the next sentence: If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the Living God. If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been put in the place of the Living God, because then you are to obey it even when it tells you in its own way at that time to worship Caesar. And that point is exactly where the early Christians performed their acts of civil disobedience even when it cost them their lives.

A Christian Manifesto in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer. Vol 5. A Christian View of the West. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1982. p. 491.