·- ~-88 Ofthegi'JJing ---:-.:. -.~ke2o.,_o. faith Saint Luk.e,Vtcaperent Eum,&c. to catch Him; by cat~lome , what from Him;wherebytheymight!ay Htm fafl:,and draw Hinl\lv· h. in danger ofthe flate. -It flood our Sa1Jiour upon, to be well advifed It • efcape_this fi1are thus layd for Him, which a~cordingly He doth: lea~i~o themm a mufe, and_wuhall under one,lea~mg u_s a p~tterne; th~t Hci~ no enemy, but afnend toC&:[ar, anda-fnend,mthJsfpeciallpoim f bio receipt. That there is no duty, no not in this kinde, but C/,rijl faith~£ it, rJ{fddite ; willeth and commanpeth it, to be !J(endred, That fo,know. ing what CH It 1sT held, we may make it our Tenet; and bothhold it in opiuion,«nd hold us to it in praCfice for ever. ' - ·At' or about rhe birth of CH R: 1sT, this came to be firfia quefiion: tuke 1.1 ; and ·fo from thence, fiiU remq.ined. So that, it_was very meete Chrift fhould refolve it. At,His birth, was the great Taxe ofthewodd undel! .AuguJ11w: which being a new impofition, and never heard of before fell _ out to breed much matter of queflion :Two forts ofmen taking cw'or~ ACh5.36, verall part.; about it. There is in .AEts 5· mention of Judao of Galilee 37 ' chat rofe in tbe dayes oftribute. He it was; that held touching theTax: .f2!!_od nblz. 1'he people of God, .Abrab:ims feed, free borne, they to be~ charged ·with taxes, by a flranger, a heathen, an idolater? No, rather rife and take armes, as Jeroboam did. The peoples eares itched afterthis doCl:rine. The bell religion for the Purfe, is the befl: for them; and they, ready to hold wit~ Jeroboam, or JudM, or any that will abrogate pay. ~nelzlif: And now, though JudMwas taken,and had as he deferved; and after his execuriori, pay it t:1ey did, though with an ill will; yet the fcr1.4 pie of this quellion remained jn mens mindes Rill; they continued irre- . folute, touching the right ofit. As 'indeed, in no one thing, men are ever fo long in refolving. Still there were, that mut~ercd in corner•, Iu. dMwas right : Tribute was but a meere exaction. Men indeed ofrumul. tqousSpirits;btit in fhew ~ealous prefer1Jer'i of the peoples liberties;whom they calledGa.ulonites. . . . ;, · ... On the other fide, Herodandtheyt$\ltWeretowardhim,beingaU ~ha~ they were byC4ar; to 1)1ake the ·tri~ute fure worke, they heldi tha,~ rot,ooelyTribute, bur whadoever elfe w,sC.efir's. His_qf,!tt wit-stju.ecmz~ que: He could not ha:ve enough; not rill hee had qu,e'E>ei too. Thej Roman Monarchie pricked fafl: toward this point: 'Di11ijum impe;ium culfi. lo1Je, was received at this time with great applaufe. Cifarand Jupite;. at halves; halfe Goo. Not long aft~r,.full out a God; . Edi8um1Jo~ mini_, &G, the ediFl ofour·Lord God 'DorJzitipn. And this was not a p!_eC9 of Poetry: but we finde in t"he Iewi!Jl itory, Pefro"niMingood earnell, foughr to bring inCaligu/,{s. imago, into the TempleofGod; and called for, not onely Tribute, but Jacrifice for C.efar. ,Now them, that thus i9 derogation of the Peoples liberty., held this part, they termed H_ero. dian.r- As it were men for Herods turne. And thus held'this Qg,elhon: Thu; have wee b~th fides; and boch their abmours. Of which the ··- · · - · ---- - ~cop!~
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