Of the giving '• C~for~~4 FRom "this happy conj~nctidn of the~ two.great Lights (Cefor and G'odjoyndy. Go o) here met _together, hnked~1thth1s Cop.ulative, Cefori and D E o; and bo'th In compafT~of one period; again~ the GaulOrlite of<flit Age, the. .Anabaptift (who thinketh, they are in oppofition the whole heaven in funder; and rhat Go -o hath not His due, unlelfe (.e– far lay downe His Scepter.) That(£/arand Goo, CHltJST and a Cbri'flian Magiftrate, are .t«is-m, incompatible; that they Rand aloofe and wili not one come neere another; Here is aSyfl:ajie, a Confiflence~they will' Rand together well (both they and their duties:) asclofeasone Verfe, one breath, one period can joynefhem. · · To fee then this paire thus neere, thus coupled, thus (as it were)arme in arme together,.is a blefTed fight. Not here onely to be feene; but all the Scriptures through, w,ith like ali~ect; Here in oneGofpeO, C.efar d · and Go D. Before in one Law, G' o D providing as for His owne Exo .>o, worfhip, fo for their honour that are {et oyer us. In one Verfe thePro– phet joyneth.-them (Pro'llerbs 14.11.) My SonneJeare Go o and the I(lng: and in one Verfe the ApolUe forteth them (1 Peter 1.17.) Feare GoD, f,onour the l(ing. So, GoD and CH Rr s T, the Law and .Go– Jpell, thePrspluts and .A'pofl:les, fetch not their brearh, come not to a full point, till they have taken in both. Sure it is, CH R 1 s T and 'Belial; agreenot (1Cor.6.n.) and as fure, that they are the children of'Belial; chat have no part in 'Da11id (citat i;;, the lawfull Magiftrate) byS/Jeba's cafe. 2Samuello.1. Thi~ is enough to fhew; GoD impeachcth not C.cfar; nor GoD's due, C.efars right. Either permittc:th others interdl; and both of them mayjoymlybe performed. Thatas Goo's Law lilpportethche L~w ofNanons; Sodoth CHR ts T plead for [£jar: His IJ\!ligion, for C.<– fars allegeance; His GojpeO, for C.tfarsduty,even toapenny. Itwasbpt apenny was fhewed :Not fo much as apennyof [.efars, but CHR 1sT will fpeake, he may have it. This againlhheGaul01zitt, rhadteppes o.. ver !?E,.e C.efaru j the fidl: part, and is,all for qu.e 'Dei, chelattcr. And againfi the Herodian too; by whom qtl£ C£faru is ll:ood_on ~lone, and qu.e 'Dei flipped oyer. Two duties are fet forth;· there IS ahke regard to bee had of both that wee make not CHR 1 s TS anfwer ferve for either alone. I kno~ not how, an evill ufe hach poiTeiTc:d the World: · 9ol!lm~nly, ~n~ ~!ltY i~ ~nglc:d. ~~~ an~ ~~~~ ~ad~ ~f, vviteout h~:~ '·
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