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
plentifullie and admirably And sith as God himselfe saith This is the very honour that he expecteth at our hands sith as the Kingly Prophet telles vs it pleaseth God better then the oblation of many Psalm 50. 23. fatted beasts or the smell of much incense and sith as the Apostle S. Paul teacheth vs this euen this giuing of thanks 1. Tim. 2. 3. for all men and namely or specially for Kings is a thing good acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour let euery one of vs in particular say with Dauid quid retribuam Domino Psalm 116. 12. c. That is What shall I render vnto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done vnto me and namely in placing ouer me so good so gratious and so worthy a King and resolue with Dauid I will take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord I will offer to him the sacrifice of thankesgiuing And let vs all say as the Queene of Sheba 2. Chron. 9. 8. did concerning King Salomon 2. Chron. 9. Blessed bee the Lord thy God O King which loued thee to set thee on his throne in the stead of the Lord thy God because thy God loueth our land to establish it for euer therefore hath hee made thee King ouer vs to execute iudgement and iustice The second generall part HItherto haue I shewed you beloued in the Lord our dutie to Caesar consisting in sixe things viz. Feare Honour Obedience Tribute defence and Prayer Now let vs consider also according to my promise as God shall assist and time permit me some motiues and inducements to this duty And to that purpose that we may neuer slide either by the corruption of our owne heart or the perswasion of men or suggestion of the Diuell I will since the wisest either of Kings or men affirmeth that a threefold cable is not easily broken shew you a fourefolde corde which may well kept and obserued euer hold the whole heart Eccles 4. 12. and soule of euery subiect in loue and Allegiance to his Soueraigne the seuerall twists whereof are these viz. 1. The ordination of Caesar 2. The haynousnesse of the crime of disloyalty against Caesar 3. The punishments of that sinne 4. The rewards of Loyalty and dutifulnesse to Caesar Motiue 1 1. Concerning the former of these neither any wicked spirit nor mortal man nor Heauenly Angell but God himselfe The Ordination of Caesar is hee that ordaineth Caesar to bee Caesar and setteth him vpon his throne This is euident by many proofes of holy Scripture generall and particular Generall partly negatiue and partly affirmatiue 1. Negatiue as where Christ saide vnto Pilate Thou Ioh. 19. 11. couldest haue no power at all against mee except it were giuen thee from aboue And the Apostle vnto vs all There is no Rom. 13. 1. power but of God To whom agreeth the Psalmist when he singeth thus Promotion commeth neither from the East nor Psal 75. 7. from the West nor yet from the South And why For God is the Iudge He putteth downe one and setteth vp another 2. Affirmatiue for By mee saith the vncreated wisedome Prou. 8. 15. of God doe Kings raigne and Princes decree iustice The name of God be praised saith Daniel the Prophet chap. Dan. 2. 21. 2. for Wisedome and strength are his He changeth times seasons he setteth vp Kings and taketh them away And the blessed Apostle in the place before alleaged telleth vs directly that The powers that bee are ordained of God To Rom. 13. 1. these we may adde the words of the wiseman speaking to all rulers in this sort Giue eare ye that rule the nations and Wisd 6. 23. glory in the multitudes of people for the Rule is giuen you of the Lord and power by the most high Particular which do consist in God his immediate designement of diuers vnto kingdomes as of Saul whom by the hand of Samuel he annointed to be Head ouer his 1. Sam. 10. 1. people and whom by the same Prophets mouth he testifieth to the people that he had chosen to be King ouer them Of Hazael and of Iehu appointing his seruant Elijah to Vers 24. 1. Kin. 19. 15. 16 annoint the one of them King ouer Syria the other ouer Israel According wherunto Daniel telleth Nebuchad that great King of Babel which yet knew not God That the Dan. 2. 37. God of Heauen had giuen him a Kingdome power strength and glorie and had deliuered not the men onely that dwelled on the face of the earth but also the very beasts of the field and the foules of the heauen into his hand and made him ruler ouer them all Likewise for Salomon the sonne of Dauid the Queene of Sheba can tell vs that it was the Lord 2. Chron. 9. 8. God of Israel that had set him on his throne in his steed to be King ouer his people and both for Salomon and Dauid his Father Dauid himselfe the man after Gods owne heart doth most plainely testifie in this sort The Lord God chose mee 2. Chron. 28. 4. before all the house of my Father to bee King ouer Israell for euer among all the sonnes of my Father he delighted in mee to make me King ouer his people and euen so of all my sonnes hee hath chosen Salomon my sonne to sitte vpon the throne of the Kingdome of the Lord. Thus it is most manifest that Caesar is ordained to be Caesar by God and therefore vnto him as vnto the ordinance of God wee ought to yeeld whatsoeuer is Caesars lest in reiecting him we reiect God Obiection That this is so of all good Princes all goodmen wil easily grant But since that an euill Prince is a great euill an extreame plague it is a question with some how such a one can be of God or be said to be set in place by God who is the spring from whence all goodnesse and onely Iam. 1. goodnes doth flow Answere Though the particulars before recited doe sufficiently prooue not onely the good but euill Princes also to bee Gods ordinance For who are euill if Saul if Hazael if Nebuchadnezzar were not and the generals extending to all do necessarily comprehend both good euill Yet farther and more fully to cleare this doubt wee must vnderstand beloued in the Lord that there is Malum culpae and Malum Poenae an euill of crime and an euill of paine The euill of crime is sinne the euill of paine is the punishment of sinne the euill of crime is not of God God being all sufficient needs it not beeing most holy commands it not being most righteous approues it not in a word hee hateth accurseth it in all in this world and in all the impenitent will condemne it eternally in the world to come But the euill of paine being the punishment of sin is thrown from the throne of God vpon the heads of
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
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 â—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 Coâ—â— 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 haÌ„beo 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 discà nt 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
is pleased therewith Blessed be thou therefore of the Almighty Lord for euermore and let all the people say Amen Being thus affected for honouring of Caesar wee shall bee the better prepared for the next duty which is Obedience 3. Obedience which since it is vniust to require of inferiours as the Husband of the wife the Father of the sonne the Master of the seruant and not to giue it to the Superiour namely euery subiect to his Soueraigne since that is true in the publique estate which Aristotle auoucheth in a priuate By Aristotle in Oecon. how much the more diligently any obey so much the greater fauour they finde since that as he saith the Obedience of the Citizens is the felicity of the citie since S. Paul for this duty would haue a Memorandum and since S. Peter would haue vs performe this duety not onely to the King himselfe Tit. 3. 1. 1. Pet. 2. 13. but also to such as are sent of him let vs all giue Obedience to Caesar and render due subiection vnto the Lords annointed But doe examples more preuaile then reason The whole world swarmeth with examples of Obedience For Examples among the Insecta the Amazonian Bees obey their Foeminine Bees Beasts Monarch among the beasts of the field the flocks follow their leader and the heards their head among the foules of the aire the Cranes attend their guide and watcher Foules among men the seruant obeies his master the sonne his Father and the wife her husband More in man the Men. body obeies the soule Also the celestial spheares notwithstanding Spheares their proper peculiar motions be circumuolued by the first Moueable The Angels which excel in strength Angels be obedient to the commandement of God and yet more The sonne of God all whose actions are our instructions Son of God performed in all his life most absolute Obedience Obedience Philip. 2. Iohn 6. 38. 4. 34. Math. 26. 54. comming into the world obedience beeing in the world and obedience going out of the world Wherefore then being compassed with such a cloud of examples let vs casting off all impediments obey Caesar as wee ought Wee must obey Caesar 1. Readily Genes â—2 let vs yeeld him our full obedience Let vs obey Caesar readily sincerely and generally Readily without delay what hee commands must foorthwith as Abraham to God bee performed Sincerely without grudging or any 2. Sincerely Colos 3. 22. sinister affection not with eye-seruice as men pleasers but in singlenesse of heart as seruing the Lord and not man Generally not what liketh vs onely not in one or two 3. Generally things but as becommeth vs in euery thing For that which the Reubenites and others said to their Ioshua we must say Iosh 1. 16. to our Caesar All that thou commandest vs we will doe and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs we will goe onely the Lord our God be with thee so that thou command vs nothing against God Acts 4. Acts. 4. 19. The fourth dutie or thing due to Caesar is tribute which of right as well as custome is due to the Crowne 4. Tribute Concerning which when I consider that many times Caesars eyelids doe not slumber that our eyes may safely Benefits from Caesar sleepe that Caesars sword cutteth off theeues that subiects may enioy their goods that Caesars Scepter curbeth Adulterers that wee may keepe our wiues our daughters our maidens in chastity that Caesars gouernment is our safe-conduct to passe the high waies wide heaths thicke woods wilde mountains and plaines without danger either to our purses from theeues or to our liues from cut-throats that Caesars royall nauie at Sea and mighty forces sometimes at home sometimes abroad do beat off the enemy from inuading our land wasting our country spoyling our goods rifeling our treasures burning our houses sacking our cities forcing our wiues deflouring our daughters dashing out the brains of our tender babes tormenting our selues with cruell death taking away from vs the word of God which as Elies daughter 1. Sam. 4. 22. in law said of the taking of the Arke would be the departure of glorie from Israel my mouth cannot but out of the abundance of my heart speake of the soueraigne minister of God among vs as S. Paul hath long before spoken from God himself for the Ministers of his Church Quis militat proprijs stipendijs c. Who goeth a warfare 1. Cor. 9. 7. at any time at his owne cost Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruite thereof or Who feedeth a flocke and eateth not of the milke of the flocke 1. Cor. 9. If Dauid entring into a serious consideration of Gods Others gratuitie Psalm 116. 12. benefits bestowed vpon him breaketh out into this question What shal I render vnto the Lord for al his benefits towards me If the Israelites so soone as Ioshua had deuided vnto them the cities which the Lord had giuen them presently gaue Ioshua an inheritance a citie for an inheritance Iosh 19. 49. a citie which himselfe did aske euen Timnah-Scres in Mount Ephraim If Riuers goe into the place whence Eccles 1 7. Heb. 6. 7. they returne and goe If the earth receiuing seed returneth a croppe are our hearts my beloued like to Dauids heart or rather are we not more vnthankfull then the Israelites more vnnaturall then the waters more vngratefull then the earth if in consideration of these infinite benefits which we daily receiue from Caesar we be not euer most willing and that with cheerefulnesse for as God so surely Gods Vicegerent loueth a cheerefull giuer to returne â— Cor. 9. 7. Necessitie of tribute tribute which Cicero calleth the synewes of warre and Vlpian the nerues of the Common-wealth as without which there was neuer that any part of the Scripture can shew any well ordered estate as a pledge of our thankfull hearts to the throne and person of Caesar Desireth any to heare a commandement for it The Commandement of God for it blessed Apostle saith expreslie Giue to all men their dutie and namely tribute to whom ye owe tribute custome to Rom. 13. 7. whom custome And that we may know to whom we owe it of it especially and most properly I call to witnesse Saint Matthew Saint Marke and Saint Luke the Lord Iesus Matth. 22. 21. Mark 12. 17. Luke 20. 25. saith as our text is Giue to Caesar those things which be Caesars Is any so wicked to detaine this To take from a priuat man it is theft to take from the Church it is Sacriledge to take or detaine from the Prince it is Peculatus that is robbing of the Royall treasure the treasure that should be imploied to the common good Hee saith Salomon Prou. 28. 24. that robbeth his father and mother and saith it is no transgression is the companion of a man that destroyeth He may we say that detaineth