CMs .I(R hit dut!. to with-hold.ft:yo"U would kn0~ ':"'hether you may; I fay unto you,yoii not onlymay, butmuG anfweot.Not ~are,asa rnatter·ofgifi but redder€\• '. · : as a matter of repayment or rejlitutiOJi. Saint Paul rnaketh this point ye~ more plaine : indeed paG all controverfie, '\vhere be addetb to -:;..,;m, tb~ other·~~'"', to the word of.rendring, the plaine tetme ofdebts; Exprefly,' calltng themdebts, bothTnbuteand Cuftome. · · ·, • Then what is paid to the Prince, or to Go n, ·is not to be tt:nned ~ . d'onatiw, gratuity) or bene'JJolmce' but of the nature of things reflorei', which though they bee iri our. keeping, are in very deed other mens. And they. that r~ckon of them as matters meerely voluntaty; niuG at. ,ter CH R 1 s 1,'' s ~ddite needs; and tc!ach Him fome othertcrme~ But · they that willlearne ofHim, mufl: thinke and call themqebts; muG ·ac.: compt themldves debters; :md that' God and Cdjar are is two creditors, Rom lj:j~ and rhey indebted to them both; and thereby as truely bound to diC: · charge themfelves ofthele, as of anydebt, or bo11d they owe. That,ittbey render not th:efe duties, they detaine that which is none oftheirs: andfo doing, are not onely hard and illiberal!·, but unrighteous and unjua men. . . . . / This from rJ(eddite, but this is not all. There is yet a further matter in · it, ,whtch,giveth a great grace to this rendring. · ' . . ' . For in that He willeth them, ~1, His meaning is withall it fhoulct not .bee -:;..,;.,,C><aforcetl. yeelding, but ,;,;il"'' a !1\!ndring, andthatwtlling~_ ly; for [o the nacure ofthe word cloth import, and forhe Grecians di-: fiingulfh tmo,;;,, and ""'"''"'· Our tranflation readeth: Giw to C.efar~· no doubt, with reference to this; that it fhould (though duely) -yet · fo Jviilingly be paid, as it were even a franke;gifi. In. our fpeech \Vee fay;' What u more due tha11 debt ? And againe; J171,at is more free thangift~ Yet both thefe may me~te, as in another cale, the Apofl:le coupleth them ~~~''~'{'"' '""'"' , 'Duety, yet rJ3ene"Volwt ; 13ene'JJelmce and y~t due ; the one re~ fpetl:ing the nature,che other the minde : So,both ttanflations not amilTej both readings reconciled. . . _ Th_at is no~ therefore.to pay them, becaufe it will no hettet be. ~<e{at 1Sam]"i,t3' hath"Vlm coa[fi'JJam: Ilophm bath a fiefh-l,ook.e, and can fay, datuvel¥u:. - feretur a r-uobu : and therefore to part with it, as one deliwretl, apurfei ot to beare.it as a Porter' cloth his load, groning under it: thatis-n()t i:be hlan.; ner of ~~~~ering it;that isheere.wfuired. But wce-mu'ftptferilr:zs itt were a Gift, voluntarily, willingly, cheerefullyj i•X"<:<~,;.-;,v~"i;)Q"of,' cod:2~ ;~ "'"~"'"'' ' ·""""'· A•« 'llv """'" (faith Saint Peter Jy,.,;, r'""";~'""l (faith St:Paul) 2 Cor.9.7:l E-ven fortheLord,even for coufciencefake; tho.ugli Hoplmi had rro •fitfh!. ~~:·~·;.?' booke, thpughCefar liad-npPu.bliJan totakeaGrdfe. ~, '.• '· :: J , • To pay it with grudgingan·danevill eye, to fay Vade &udici'ar., :icrProv.j. 1 s: put off, to pay itaftel: often cotnrt-yng·and>fending; thisris J,lOt ~"'.il;.;;fh~fe, ~1i - , the heathen mantermedrr-uifcatilbe'neficiai when they hahg~0 ~b~ firrg~rslike!?ir.~:lim~,a~ciwill ~~~~~ca~ay~· -~,. ·, t·. · t .r i·· o l ~ay:
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