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B12557	The two-folde tribute or two speciall duties commanded by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to be rendred: the first of subiects to their Cæsar, the second of Christians to their God: for the better furtherance of the one in his regall dignitie, and of the other in his Eulangelicall ministerie. Explaned in two sermons and now published. Anno. 1613. By Richard Eburne	Eburne, Richard.	1613 (1613)	STC 7474; ESTC S113959	88,252	106

their duety in this behalfe but doe shew themselues vnworthy of such worthy men as the Lord doth send vnto them and vnworthy of the Gospell and gladtidings of saluation which they preach among them Thus Christian Reader hauing imparted vnto thee in part and in breefe what hath induced me to the hope I haue to see at length the cause I handle in my succeeding Sermon better respected whereof thou maist reade more what I haue written otherwhere as one zelous for the house of God whose stones it pittieth mee to see still lying M. Minist cap. 7. et 10. in the dust praying God to put into the heart of our thrice noble gratious and religious King into whose hand hee hath put the sword of Soueraigne authoritie not onely a good inclination and forward disposition this way but also an irreuocable and vnresistable resolution to execute his supreame power for the reformation of this euill and extirpation of this shame of our Church and disgrace of our Nation I pray thee for our Lord Iesus Christs sake for the loue of the spirit that thou wouldst Rom. 15. striue with mee by prayers to God for mee that I may bee deliuered from them which are disobedient and euill minded men and that this my seruice and labour for the Church and house of God in our land may bee accepted of the Saints VVhich God for his Gospell sake vouchsafe Amen Thine euer in the Lord R. Eb. THE SECOND SERMON MATH 22. 21. Render vnto God those things that be Gods OVr blessed Sauiour a Luk. 12. 42. Luke 12. notes it to be the office of a faithfull and wise steward disposer of the mysteries of God as Paul calleth him b 1. Cor. 4. 1. 1. Cor. 4. to giue vnto the household their due portion in due season which c Erasm Epist ad Iod. Ionam saith a great clarke consisteth in these points promere cum res postulat cuique promere quod est accommodum promere quod satis est that is in deliuering the meate of the word at a fit houre in deliuering that which is good and wholesome and in deliuering that which is sufficient For d Galen de Sanitate ●uenda lib. 1. pag. 65. in our corporall food we obserue these three things First a fitte time to eate in Secondly the good qualitie and Thirdly the conuenient quantitie of our foode otherwise it is not dispensatio a disposing e Bern. de Co●● sid lib. 3. saith Saint Bernard but Dissipatio a wasting hauing heretofore to dispose vnto you the meate laid vp in this garner and the little wheate I found in this vallie how I dispensed it vnto you then either in regard of the due season or in respect of the qualitie of that I deliuered vos ipsi iudicate you must be iudges But least I should haue beene offensiue in the quantitie I made an end f Bern. super Cant. ser 36. Vbi finis non erat where was no end as they are inforced to doe that are as was the high Steward of this familie when hee said g Ioh. 16. 12. Multa hābeo dicere quae non potestis portare modò I haue yet manie things to say vnto but ye cannot beare them away now streightned either with the deepenes of the matter or as I then with the shortnesse of the time wherefore since now by course we are returned as the Sonne to his place I to speake and you to heare h Bern. de Concil lib. 1. recurrat stibus ad suam materiam let my tongue returne to that part of my text where then I left without anie long repetition of that is past sauing onely thus farre vt recolant qui audierant discànt qui non aderant that is that they may call the whole to minde which heard it and they may learne somewhat thereof which heard it not that it may please you to remember that I deuided this my text into a twofould dutie A duety A briefe repetition of the former sermon to Caesar and a duetie to God The duetie to Caesar in the words formerly handled wherein I obserued first the particulars of that duetie to be these sixe feare honour obedience tribute defence and prayer secondly I added some motiues to the performance of this sixe-fould duetie and they were principally foure viz. The ordination of Caesar the hainousnesse of the crime of disloyaltie against Caesar the punishments of that sinne from God and man and the rewards of loyaltie externally internally and eternally to them that faithfully walke in the performance of these duties to Caesar It remaineth now that by your accustomed patience I The latter part of the text now to be handled should speake of the other duetie the last in the text but in practise not the least that is our duetie to God in these words Reddite quae sunt Dei Deo that is Giue vnto God the things that are Gods Of which they being manie some spiritual some temporal the shortnes of our ordinarie time not permitting me to speake of both sorts leauing wholly the former though the principall as which are so commonly handled by others that i Augustine Magis desiderant lectorem quam expositorem that is there want readers rather then expositors for them I will as either more proper to the state of my text which k Aug. in locum Serm. 129. Idem Tom. 10. Homil. 48. And. Hispan reg decim 4. Scourge of Sacrelidge D. 8. a. H. 5. a. fig. 8. Abulens in Mat. 22. qu. 101. Glos ordin in the iudgement euen of the auncients deuotes vnto vs of our temporall things the goods of this life what sort or what part there of is due to Caesar and what to God or more pertinent to my present purpose which is most to insist vpon that point which is least knowne and to vrge that hardest which is worst obserued spend my speech in declaring vnto you what temporall things are due to God For as it is a thing already granted and lately taught you That besides the feare the honour the obedienee and the other like dueties that wee owe to Caesar wee owe him also a part of our goods we must yeeld him Tribute custome and other like so it cannot be denied and shall presently be taught you That besides the spirituall dueties which we owe to God as faith feare loue trust hope c. We doe owe him also a part of our temporall goods to be imploied in his seruice that so as he is Lord of all of our selues body and soule and of all that we haue life and goods so by all and with all he may for all be glorified And to this purpose directly as I take it tends our text The state and summary sense of the text For question being mooued not what things were due to Caesar but whether this one thing reddere censum to pay him tribute were

a patterne of the great God from whom our whole estates our lawes to liue by and all our comfort in our seuerall courses doe proceed 2. Of our selues That we may leade vnder them a quiet 2. Of our selues 1. Tim. 2. 2. life without any insurrections at home and a peaceable life without any inuasion from abroad in all godlinesse that it may bee said of our land as Iacob once said of Bethel Genes 28. 16. Surely the Lord is in this place and this is none other but the house of God and in honestie that the name of the Lord be not blasphemed among the Gentiles among the Mahumetanes among the Papists and other enemies of the Gospell through vs but that as Christ said Our light may so shine before men that they may see our good Matth. 5. 16. workes and glorifie for them our Father which is in heauen This dutie being thus necessarie let vs performe it Pray Prayer is needfull we for Caesar It is needfull for him easie for vs and profitable for both He needs our prayer and therefore as Darius highly respected the sacrifices and prayers of the Esra 6. 6. Priests of Israel for his life and for his sonnes so let vs assure our selues our Cyrus doth no lesse what say I no lesse doth much more desire our prayers for himselfe and his Queene for the Prince and the rest of their royall issue I need no better nor other argument of his Maiesties desire in this behalfe then his special Edict for obseruation of this day the 5. of August which of purpose in his holy zeale and pious deuotion he hath consecrated during his whole life thoroughout all his dominions vnto prayer and thanksgiuing for him and his Let euery one therefore that loueth Caesar pray for him This is a dutie with great facilitie to bee done If thy Easie purse bee so poore that it can pay no tribute to Caesar if thy bodie bee so feeble that it can doe nothing for the defence of Caesar yet if thy heart be not leaud and wicked if thy mind be not deuoid of all pietie and Christian dutie thy tongue may and thy heart will daily and often publikely and priuately pray for Caesar Pray we then for him it is very profitable for both The Profitable prayer of a righteous man as saith S. Iames and shewes it by the example of Elias chap. 5. auaileth much with Iames 5. 16. God if it be feruent It helpes when all other helpes doe faile against all calamities against sicknesse against death against enemies and what not By it was Peter deliuered Act. 12. Isni 38. Iosh 3. 10. 12 1. King 4. 33. out of prison Hezekias restored to health Israel had the victorie by it the waters of Iordane were diuided the Sunne stood still the dead were raised to life and the liuing haue been saued from sundrie dangers If Paul exhorted 1. Tim. 2. 2. to pray for Nero for he was Caesar when Paul so wrote a man so wicked that he murthered his mother that bare him slew his Tutor that bred him and was natures monster If the Prophets Ieremie and Baruch commanded Ier. 29. 7. Baruch 1. 11. 2. King 24. to pray for the life of the King of Babel who yet had wasted Iudea with fire and sword besieged and taken Ierusalem burned the Temple slaine and caried captiue of 2. Pet. 1. 21. the people innumerable c. What would that holy spirit by whom both the Prophets and Apostles did write that English Scottish Irish and others vnder the subiection or protection of his most gratious Maiestie should do for this our good our godly our religious most vertuous King who hath established peace among vs vnited the deuided confirmed the Gospell and adorned the Temple of the Lord amongst vs Let vs therefore pray for his excellent Maiesty and for his that God would build his house as the house of Dauid establish his throne as the throne of Salomon make their daies vpon earth as the daies of heauen And not only let vs pray which respecteth the time present We must also render to god praise and thankesgiuing Heb. 13. 15. and to come but also for that is a principall part of prayer and respecteth likewise the time past which wee ought not to forget let vs praise God Let vs offer vnto him the fruite of our lippes confessing his name Let vs present vnto him the sweet odours and spirituall incense Psalme 50. of our hearts remembring his benefits Let vs render vnto him the sacrifice the true liuely and most acceptable sacrifice of praise and thanksgiuing extolling his vnspeakeable mercy and goodnesse vnto vs and our Nation First in driuing farre from vs all those euils and dangers which our hearts did feare and our enemies did hope at the setting of that * Queene Elizabeth Causes why to be thankefull most Orient Starre which long before had shined ouer vs would fall vpon vs. 2. In preparing for vs and placing ouer vs not a child but a man yea a mirrour of men not a meane Prince but a mightie Potentate not a Captaine but a king that had long before learned to hold the Scepter and by the experience of many yeeres had gotten skill to guide the raines of regall regiment 3. In bringing to vs not an enemie but a friend not an hater but a louer not only a fauourer but a furtherer but a learned a zealous and mightie defender both by word and sword of the ancient and apostolike the holy and catholike religion long since planted amongst vs. 4. In preseruing among vs and before he came among vs as this day beareth witnesse the life and person of him his annointed and our Soueraigne from the malice and furie the snare and violence the sword and assault of all rebels and traitors of all enemies and wicked ones which either priuily or openly at home or abroad haue wished intended or attempted any euill vnto his soule 5. In a word in powring vpon vs so many so great so diuers and so excellent benefits and blessings both spirituall and temporall the summe whereof my tongue cannot easily tel much lesse can my heart conceiue the greatnesse and worthines of them which wee by meanes of his Maiesties happie hopefull peaceable and pious reigne ouer vs doe abundantly enioy If it bee our dutie for euery benefit wee receiue at the 1. Tim. 4. 4. hand of God if we ought euen for the meate that we eate and for the cloathes that we put on and for whatsoeuer other particular blessing or good thing we receiue of God and what haue we which we haue not of him receiued 1. Cor. 4. 7. to render vnto him praise and thanks to laud and magnifie his name how much more for these so many so manifold and inestimable benefits vpon his Maiestie for vs and vpon vs by his Maiestie powred and bestowed