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A26412 A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis. Adis, Henry. 1660 (1660) Wing A581; ESTC R28080 68,628 81

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wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem And because the main drift of the Spirit in the Text is to discover Hezekiah's neglect in not rendring to God and the sad Consequences thereof I shall therefore first consider what Rendring is before I come to draw any teachable Conclusions from the Text Rendring then simply so considered is none other but a giving to God or Man that which is their due for so saith the Spirit 1 Chron. 16. 29. Give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name and Rom. 13. 7. Render therefore to all men their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour as if he should say Give freely to God and Man that which belongeth to them according to the saying of the Lord Christ himself Mat. 22. 21. Give to Cesar the things that are Cesars and to God the things that are Gods There is also a Rendring spoken of in Scripture by way of Requital for some Benefit bestowed or Injury done and this is sometimes called Rendring and sometimes Recompencing and Requiting as in that of Luke 14. 12 14. When thou makest a Dinner or a Supper call not thy Friends nor thy Brethren nor thy Kinsmen nor thy rich Neighbours lest they also bid thee again and a Recompence be made thee But call the Poor the Maimed the Blind and the Halt and thou shalt be blessed for they cannot Recompence or Requite thée and in 1 Tim. 5. 4. where Children and Nephews are required to requite their Parents and 1 Thes. 5. 15. where it is the Advice of the Spirit that no man should render evil for evil to any man So that there is a Rendring belongs to man from man simply so considered as they stand in such or such Relations as Children to Parents Servants to Masters Wives to Husbands or Subjects to Princes And there is also a more Respective Rendring due to men as they are Benefactors or better than ordinary in those Relations as from a Child to an indulgent Father from a Servant to a very bountiful Master from a Subject to his Priuce as he is Wise and Prudentially careful laying about him every way for the better well-being of his Subjects one that refuseth the way of Rehoboam the Son of Solomon who threatned to make the burthens of his Subjects heavier and heavier and to be worse to them than was his Father 1 Kings 12. 11. But to such an one that will undo the heavy burthens and let the oppressed go free according to that of Isa. 51. 6●… I say to such a Father Master and Prince there is a more Tender Respective Affectionate Rendring due and that by way of Requital to answer the Love Bounty and Care of such a Father Macter or Prince And this is that Rendring in my Text that God expecteth from Hezekiah that as he had been a bountiful and a full-handed God to him so he expected that Hezekiah though a King should have had his mouth filled with his Praises For when the King of Babylon sent Ambassadors to him to enquire of the Wonder that was done in his Land 2 Chron. 32. 31. God expected that then he should have shewed the Ambassadours how miraculous God had been in delivering him from his Enemies and recovering him and in satisfying his Request in causing the Sun to run retrograde in token of the certainty of his recovery and of the fifteen years addition to his dayes by which means God would have been glorified in the eyes of the Heathen which is that that God requireth That his People should sing forth the Honour of his Name and make his Praise glorious Psal. 66. 2. And also saith the Lord by the Prophet Isai. 42. 12. Let them give glory unto the Lord and declare his Praise in the Islands A good Lesson for thee to learn O King that when Ambassadours are sent from forreign Princes to Congratulate thy condition that then thou remember before them to glorifie that God and set forth his Praise who hath been so miraculously bountiful unto thee But Hezekiah rendred not again according to his Benefits bestowed upon him but his heart was lifted up therefore wrath fell upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem Quest But here it may be demanded when a person may be said to render duely to God Answ. To this I Answer A person may then be said to make suitable Returns or duely to render to God when in the Relation he standeth in he shall as much as in him lieth Act faithfully both to God and man according to the mind of God whether they be Men or Women as they stand in the Relations of Servants or Masters Children or Parents Wives or Husbands Subjects or Princes And because the subject matter of my Text is concerning Prince and People I shall not stand to particularize the duty of the other Relations but shall as briefly as I may come to a discovery of what I know from the Scriptures to be the Mind of God in those Relations that concern my Text And first of the duty of a Subject to his Prince a Subject may properly be said duely to render unto God when according to the saying of the Lord Christ Mat. 22. 20. He doth give to Cesar the things that are Cesars and to God the things that are Gods when he doth that in the Worship of God that is agreeable to the Mind of God revealed in that plain Directory the Holy Scriptures of Truth And when according to that Rule also he doth render to his Prince Tribute Custom Fear and Honour according to the direction of the Spirit Rom. 13. 7. A more full discovery hereof is laid down in my Declaration And secondly A Prince may properly be said to render duely to God when he doth also follow the direction of the same Spirit in the Directory who saith 2 Sam. 23. 3. He that Ruleth over men must be just Ruling in the fear of God This fear of God is that which made good Nehemiah when he was appointed Governour over the Land of Judah neither he nor his Brethren not to eat the Bread of the Governour Nehamiah 5. 14. For saith he v. 15. The former Governours that were before me were chargeable to the People and had taken of them Bread and Wine besides forty shekels of Silver yea even their Servants bare rule over the People But saith he So did not I And he addeth this as a Reason Because of the fear of God And this is that which the Wise man telleth us is the sum or substance of all that is required from Man in the twelfth Chapter of his Ecclesiastes and the thirteenth verse Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his commandments for this saith he is the whole duty of Man and so saith the Prophet Micah 6. 8. He that shewed thee O man what is good And what doth the Lord require of thee but