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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44415	A sermon preach'd before the king at White-hall on the fifth of November, 1681 by George Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2706; ESTC R228742	12,526	28

A SERMON Preach'd before the KING AT WHITE-HALL ON THE Fifth of November 1681. By GEORGE HOOPER D. D. Printed by his Majesties Command LONDON Printed for Mark Pardoe at the Sign of the Black-Raven over against Bedford House in the Strand 1682. S. MATTHEW 22.21 Render therefore unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's and unto God the Things that are God's THe Pharisees and the Sadduces though divided in their Opinions and their Interests yet both looking upon our Saviour as their common enemy he equally opposing the Impiety of the one and the Hypocrisie of the other conspire together to entangle him in his talk and make here in this Chapter their successive attempts upon him THe first that of the Pharisees and which gave an occasion to the reply of the Text was manag'd with address and design they had so laid their Ambush that which way soever he took he might fall into the Snare and perish the answer he gave they expected would certainly offend either the Zeal of the Jew or the Power of the Roman For the Jews although they had now for a long while been under subjection to the uncircumcised although their Great City had been ruin'd by the Babylonian and their whole Nation transplanted hardly a Stone left upon a Stone nor a Jew in Judea though after their return from their Captivity they were still Vassals to the Persian Empire then part of the Conquest of Alexander the Great after under the Syrian Kings then reduc'd to the Roman Obedience by Pompey for their Chiefs whether Princes or Priests were still tributary and dependant yet they still retain'd their high Spirit a peculiar sence of their Native Liberty and Sacred Prerogatives But when afterwards the Romans took the Government into their own hands remov'd their Tetrarch and brought them into the condition of a Province to be commanded now by one sent from Rome who should have the Power of Life and Death and Tax them at his will this seem'd insupportable to the greatest part of them and was esteem'd as unlawful as it was burdensome that they were a holy People their Persons and Estates sacred to God and to give Obedience to any Forreigner was to withdraw it from the Lord of Hosts Nor shall we think it was any hard matter to perswade a People so well satisfied of their National Priviledges and of so stubborn a temper that it was an ungodly thing to suffer Impositions to pay Taxes was Irreligion He then that resisted this Heathen Authority was the truest Israelite the truest to the Liberty of his Nation and the honour of his God and as Moses had deliver'd them from the Egyptian Bondage so they expected a Messiah who should redeem them from the Roman and if our Saviour pretended to be that great Person he was they thought oblig'd to take this Yoke from off their Necks and declare against the Roman Government On the other side the Romans knowing what People they had to deal with that they were a rebellious City hurtful unto Kings and unto Provinces which would pay neither Toll Tribute nor Custom for so they stand of old describ'd to Artaxerxes had a very watchful Eye over them and were jealous of every Motion They had their Spyes the Herodians here in the Text and restrained their unquiet tumultuous Spirits with severe exemplary Executions So that to accuse one of a Crime against the State as an Enemy to Caesar was the greatest Revenge the most malicious Enemy could take it was to expose him to certain Ruine to an ignominious cruel Death For so we find the Chief Priests when they had taken Counsel together to put Jesus to Death for Crimes as they thought against their Law yet presenting him to Pilate with this Accusation We found this Man perverting the People forbidding to give Tribute to Caesar saying that he himself is Christ a King We have them therefore here preparing that Article whereby hereafter they intend to murder him They indeavour now by the Question they maliciously propose to take such hold of his Words that they may deliver him over to the Power and Authority of the Governour The Disciples therefore of the Pharisees who possibly were against the payment of Tribute and the Herodians who were for it being both here met together the one to tempt and the other to inform begin their Discourse to him with this flattering treacherous Insinuation Master We know that thou art true and teachest the Word of God in Truth neither carest thou for any Man for thou regardest not the Person of Men thou art not afraid of the Government and wilt not for fear disguise the Truth as our Scribes and our Doctors do Tell us therefore what thinkest thou Is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar or not But Jesus as the Text proceeds perceived their Wickedness and said why tempt ye me Hypocrites Shew me the Tribute Money and they brought unto him a Penny and he saith unto them whose is this Image and Superscription And they say unto him Caesar 's then saith he unto them returning them a precise distinct Answer and no other than what they themselves had produced Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar 's and unto God the things that are God's The Soveraignty of Caesar over you appears by his Prerogative of coyning your Money You know your Governour for you see his Face and in the Inscription you read his Authority Why therefore should you deny him the Testimony of your Subjection and refuse to pay him Tribute His Stamp I see is current with you is the regulation of your Contract the Standard of your civil Commerce And as in Payments you can't refuse to accept it so here you are obliged to give it If Caesar be your King this Payment he asks is as due as any you demand and that he is your Prince the Money you would withhold of it self testifies against you God does not here interpose any particular Claim nor will he lend his Name to countenance your Disobedience against your King and his Vicegerent If indeed he sets up his Image in the Temple you are not to suffer it for God's sake and if he commands you to worship This you are not to obey him but to give It in Tribute is your Duty it is that which God does so far not forbid that he does command Give therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar 's and unto God the things that are God's The Words of our Saviour relate indeed to a particular Question and chiefly there concern the giving of Tribute but they are too the Foundation of a general Rule and determine alike in all matters that can come in dispute betwixt God's Supreme Authority and that which is delegated to the Sons of Men. They importing that some things there are peculiarly belonging to God and some things belonging to the King and whose they are we may know by the Inscription And this Determination we shall