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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
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giuen They counted it their glorie to be found to be liberall to the Church yea so carefull and precise were they in these matters that manie times they would in their last wils bequeath some thing f To bee seene in many Testamentary records pro decimis oblitis for forgotten tithes And therefore God did blesse them he did increase their store and multiply their seede he made their flocks to prooue well and their cattell to prosper If we that exceede them in knowledge would but equall them in practise and we that goe before them in profession would but imitate them for this point in our conuersation no doubt wee should succeed them in plentie as well as in place finde Gods fauour as readie to attend vs as them and see our fields and flocks our grounds and goods more fertile and fruitfull more luckie and prosperous then oft they be He hath said it g Titus 1. 2. that cannot lie h 1. Sam. 2. 30 Them that honour me I will honour and honour i Prou. 3. 6. the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruites the best of thine increase so shall thy Barnes be filled and thy presses runne ouer with new wine or in plainer tearmes k Concil Trib. cap. 13. Da mihi decimam multiplicabo tibi nouem that is Giue me my tenth duelie and then I will multiplie thy nine parts assuredly And now beloued to conclude and bring my long labour The conclusioÌ„ exhortatiue wherwith happely I haue wearied you as well as my selfe to an end Consider I beseech you well what I haue said and l 2. Tim. 2. 7. the Lord Iesus giue you vnderstanding If ought distast you yet rashly reiect it not doe first as did Saint Paules hearers Act. 17. m Act. 17. 11. Ioh. 5 39. Search the scriptures whether it be so or no weigh what I haue spoken n Iohn â— 24. in an equall ballance consult not in matters diuine o Galat. 1. 16. with flesh and blood let not selfe will couetousnesse custome companie and other sinister respects blinde and ouerrule you What conuicted by truth the p 2. Esdr 4. 41. force whereof is verie great and soundnesse of argument and demonstration you finde consonant to veritie and equitie that practise remembring well that not they are blessed which heare the word onely but they which q Luk. 11. 28. heare it and doe it that r Act. 5. 29. we ought rather to obey God then man and that we must fit and frame not the word as if it were Å¿ Pigh Hierarch lib. 3. cap. 3 Hos lib. 3. de autoâ—iâ— scrip Cusan ad Bohem. epist 2. a leaden rule to our actions time but our actions and time to the word If you heare and yet will not obey but harden your hearts and say within your selues licet persuaseris non persuadebis that is t Postn p. 97. Though you haue perswaded vs to the right yet to the practise perswade vs you shall not you haue nothing left to cloake your sinne withal I take u 2. Cor. 1. 23. God to witnes to my soule that I haue not haÌ„dled the word of God deceitfully but haue shewed you the plaine and right way and laid before you with all faithfulnesse and sincerity the very truth and law of God And therfore I beseech you as you desire to approue your selues x Iam. 1. 22. Reuel 1. 3. not hearers only of the word but doers also of the work that with all readinesse of heart and will you embrace and follow it That so giuing to God those things that be Gods iustly without alteration fully without diminution freely without corruption and timely without delay or ouerhast God thereby being rightly honoured with your substance and the Ministers of God duly prouided for and condignlie entertained you may auoid the euils which hang ouer their heads that do it not and enioy Gods blessings and fauours which he hath certainly promised and will most assuredly performe vnto all those that do according to this Commandement The God of mercy author of all grace make you wise vnto saluation enlighten your minds that you may discerne things that differ and guide your hearts that you may delight to doe those things that be wel pleasing in his sight to the edifying of your brethren furtherance of the Gospell comfort of your owne soules and withall and aboue al to the eternall glory of God our heauenly Father To whom with the Sonne and the holy Ghost three persons and one euerliuing God be rendred and ascribed all honor praise power and dominion both now and euer Amen FINIS Faults escaped In the first page of the Epistle Dedicatorie last line but two for thus reade this Pag. 5. line 9. reade complained Pag. 10. line 17. reade of anie at anie time
His Person vpon it and with these and aboue all these 6. The Lord God of Heauen who hath thus exalted him so by these 6. things wee may bee put in minde of these 6. seuerall payments of this Tribute the sundry parts of our sixe-fold duty vnto him For The sword exacteth feare the Crowne importeth honour the Scepter requireth Obedience the Throne expecteth Tribute the Person deserueth defence and the Lord commaundeth Praier Each of which that we may yet better conceiue of each a little as God me shall assist and time permit 1. Feare is to be giuen to Caesar It is the duety of subiects 1. Feare to feare their King so teacheth Humanity so teacheth Diuinitie For humanity Periander saith Feare Periander Prou. 24. 21. Princes for Diuinity Salomon saith Feare the Lorde and the King Prou. 24. If I be a master doth God say where Mal. 1. 6. is my feare If I be a master may the King say where is my feare Bee ye afraid of the sword saith Iob cap. 19. for the Iob. 19. 29. sword will be auenged of wickednesse And why for saith S. Paul Rom. 13. Hee into whose hand it is committed by Roman 13. 4. God beareth not the sword for nought It is not put into his Roman 13. 4. hand onely for a shew No but he is the minister of God to take vengeance on him that doth euill According wherunto Prou. 16. 14. it is that Salomō faith The wrath of the King is as messengers of death Pro. 16. And again The kings wrath is like the roaring 19. 12. of a Lion Worthy the noting to this purpose is the speech which the second of those squires of the body made before Darius and his nobles wherein discoursing of the 1. Esdr 4. 2. power of a King and the cause why he ought to be feared he saith Though men rule by land and Sea and ouer all things The power of a King in them yet is the King greater for he ruleth all things and is Lord of them If he bid thē make war one against another they doe it If he send them against the enemy they goe and breake downe mountaines and walls and towers They kill and are killed and do not passe the Commandement of the King If hee bid kill they kill if he say spare they spare If he bid smite they smite if he bid make desolate they make desolate If hee bid build they build if he bid cut off they cut off c. Feare wee therefore the sword the powerfull sword of Caesar A good The good effects of loyall feare subiect feareth blame as much as paine reproach as much as torment and dishonour as much as death This feare carrieth one eye of the subiect vpon the Princes sword that hee neuer prouoke it the other eye vpon the offense that hee neuer commit it This feare as the best porter at the Princes gate keepeth traytors out of the Kings court and trechery out of the subiects heart This feare as ballast preserueth the ship from being ouerblowne of the winde keepeth the soule of the subiect that it be not ouerthrown by others flatterie or her owne presumption This feare as a bridle curbs vs from all disobedience and as a naile fastned by the Masters of the assembly fixeth vs firme in our dueties This feare therefore let vs giue to Caesar for to Caesar we owe it 2. Vnto Feare Honour is to bee adioyned And seeing 2. Honour as among earthly creatures man is most eminent as among the elements fire is most excellent and as among the celestial lights the sunne is most splendent so Caesar among the sonnes of men is most orient who will not since honour is as the Philosopher saith a testimony of excellencie Aristotle giue honour to Caesar least he beare false witnesse not against his neighbour nor against Caesar but against God who hath exalted Caesar and brought him to Honour least he seeme to degenerate from nature which in all honoureth the more excellent least he breake the Canon of the Apostle Rom. 13. Giue honour to whom ye owe honour Rom. 13. 7. Least he transgresse Gods expresse Commandement that saith Exod. 20. Honour thy Father by which note name Exod. 20. 12. the King of the land because he is Pater Patriae i. Father of the whole countrey is specially signified least as Ieremie of some Lament 4. They reuerenced not the face of the Lamen 4. 16. Priest so some complaine of him Hee reuerenceth not the face of the Prince the greater crime of the two For the Priest was a figure of Christ the King is a figure of God If Nebuchad King of Babel setting vp a dead Image could Dan. 3. 1. so preuaile with his vngodly subiects that at the sound of his musicall instruments they did fall down to it and gaue it such honour as God condemneth shall not Iehouah the King of Heauen setting vp not a dead but as Menander Menander calleth a King his liuing image preuaile with all his godly subiects at the sweet harmony of the sacred Scripture sounding out of S. Peters mouth as a principall Herauld Regem honorate Honour the King to giue him that Honor 1. Pet. 2. 17. which he hath commanded The Philosopher compareth the King to a Father to a Physition to a Pylot and to a pastour the causes are apparant And doth not God in holy Scripture giue him in manner the same titles yea and almost all the titles of honour in heauen and earth And why but to teach vs that as the sonne honoureth his Father the sicke his Physition as the mariners regard their Pilot the flock their shepheard so and much more should subiects honour their Caesar people regard their prince God and men hauing so honoured Caesar let all our people honour him Let Hester not presume into the presence of Hest 5. 1. 2. the great Ahashuerosh till he hold out the golden Scepter Let Ioab though the Generall of the Armye giue Dauid 2. Sam. 12. 27. the honour of the victory Let euen Nathan the Prophet and Sadoc the high Priest make obeisance before my Lord 1. King 1. 23. the King with their face to the ground In a word as Ioachim et ver 39. 40. the High Priest and the ancients of the children of Israel said vnto Iudith for the benefits that God by her had Iudith 15. 8. 9. shewed to his people so let the reuerend Fathers of the Church the truely Honourable Nobility of England the graue Iudges and Magistrates of the Common-wealth in honour of our most worthy and glorious King King Iames for the benefits which God by his most excellent Maiesty hath done to his Dominions say Thou art the exaltation of our land thou art the glory of our Israel thou art the reioycing of our nation Thou hast done much good vnto our countrie and God