92- ·· Ofthegi'JJing ·*:fed_did not .certainly; yet, are wee to give C4ar;that ~is·is_ notwirh.· nan mg. . · . .• I know;·weal!know; ifthisC.efarbeConjlantine, or Theodofi 115 b ·care,is much the ft.ronger, and the duty touchedi u~neerer. Bu~ \~he Rom.. 13. I · ~her he bepr no, thePowers that are,_ areordained·of God, though Tiber~: Rom.x3. a. -~ .or N.,ero halle the powers. • It Isnot. the man; it is the·or-dinance iif • iGod, we owe and.performeour. fubjecbon. to. ~WeyeelditnottoT;. beriU5, but to Ce(ar; .and Cefar IS Gods ordmance, beeTiberi 1 uwhat he -will. This..for theconfortmgof GOD and ()far and even ofth 1· 5 . \ ' ) ·.():Jar~ .j · - ~ _r; .... r: JJ. L ,y r II. ~-,, trhat point:eflablifhed, we coine to thefecorid, out ofthere words Cerraine 'tjU.t C.tfaris 0> qll.e 'Dei{ This ~ay we inf~rre: That among the things J!';~gs C•· w:e have,we-:all and every oft\;>, havecer~alne things of Ctfars 5 and cer. Cerraine tame other thmgs ofGoJs. Tha~ll the thmgs we have are not our owne· things GoJr. inafmuch as out of tl1em, there; belong fomethihgs; to either ofthe[~ It is, as if Chrill would make, all we have not to be fully and wholly :ou~s ;. but thre~ perfons to be 'intereffed ia them :· Cefar to have a right to-fo.me; G0 D to other fome; and the remainder ondy; ·'cleerely eo b<:w1.us. ·(Weigh the words qu.e 'Dei.) So that., His meaning is every man.fhould thus make account with himfelfe, of that hee hath, that tl1ere is ill his hands fomewhat' that pertaineth to either of there two. That there is in our fubfiaoce, a portion wherero they have as good right and title, as we totherefl. That whatwe have is ours, Gods part 'and Cefars :part fidl: deduCl:ed, .!(IJ.e Dei, & qu.e Ceforu (it is the: cafe Deut.z6.I 3· poffefsive) doe carry thus much. Therefore faith thetrue I(raelite, when he tendereth his offering to God, Sufluli quod SanBum eft edomo mea : I had a holy portion due to G? D amon~G: mx goods, I have fever~d it from the reG:, I have broug4t It and layd It upon th~ Altar. So, they m 1 Sam.to. 1 Samuelio. toSaul their lawfull Magiflrau, prefemed thatwas his. They · . z6, z7. that did fo, Tet~it 'DeU5 cor eorum, G0 D bath touched their hearts; Con- . fequent!y, in their hearts they did it not, there was the Print ofthe De~ ._': viis clawes, not the touch of the finger of Go D. This may ferve for the fecond ofthe duty ; for we !hall flrike the fame naile home, in the -third of r.R.._eddite. III. Tbtferobe i-endr:d. For,from this right thus imported in the words($J}_.e Cefori5,qu.t 'Dei) without any flreining, naturally cloth follow the IJ\.eddite. That theirs.it is, and fo being theirs, tobepayd them. Not ofcour– telie, but ofduty, Not, as afree largeffe, but as a due debt. Not 'Date, but IJ\.eddite, ,;,·Jb1,. As ifour Sa1>iour !hould fay, you askeme whether i~ ~e la...-v.full ~o pay9I tell you, it i~ as ~~~~~!:!!! ~o pay it, a~ i~ i~ unla~f~~ - '•
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