Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	due_a	fear_v	tribute_n	3,178	5	10.8957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59803	The case of the allegiance due to soveraign powers further consider'd, and defended with a more particular respect to the doctrine of non-resistance and passive-obedience : together with a seasonable perswasive to our New Dissenters / by Will. Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3277; ESTC R13361	22,670	34

therefore neither forces Princes to Rule well nor Subjects to Obey but he has taken the same care of the Government of the World as he has done of all the other Duties of Piety and Vertue that is he has given very good Laws and has threatned those that break them with eternal punishments and as the Laws and Religion of our Saviour prevail so will the Governments of the World mend without altering the Model and Constitution of them 2. But yet we have some positive Evidence what our Saviour taught about Obedience to the Higher Powers I shall give you two Instances of it which are as plain and express as can be desired First The first is that Answer our Saviour gave to the Pharisees and Herodians when they consulted together to intangle him in his Talk Mat. 22.15 c. they come to him with great Ceremony and Address as to an infallible Oracle to consult him in a very weighty Case of Conscience They express a great esteem and assurance of his Sincerity and Faithfulness and Courage as well as of his unerring Judgment in declaring the Will of God to them Master we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth neither carest thou for any Man for thou regardest not the person of Man that is thou wilt not conceal nor pervert the Truth for fear nor favour and then they propose an insnaring Question to him Tell us therefore what thinkest thou is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar or not They thought it impossible that he should give any Answer to this which would not make him obnoxious either to the Roman Governours if he denied that the Jews might lawfully pay Tribute to Caes●r or ●o the Pharisees and people if he affirmed that they might for there was a very potent Faction among th●m who thought it unlawful for the Jews to own the Authority or Usurpations of any Foreign Prince or to pay Tribute to him as to their King They being expresly forbid by their Law to set a stranger over them for their King who is not their Brother i. e. who is not a natural Jew Deut. 17.15 and it seems they could not distinguish between their own voluntary Act in chusing a Stranger for their King which was indeed forbid by their Law and their submitting to a Foreign Prince when they were conquered by him Our Saviour who knew their wicked intention in all this that they did not come with an honest design to b● instructed in their Duty but to seek an Advantage against him expresses some indignation at it Why tempt ye me ye Hypocrites But yet to return them an Answer to that their Question he bids them shew him the Tribute-Money that is the Money in which they used to pay Tribute and enquires whose Image and Superscription it had for coining of Money was as certain a Mark of Soveraignty as making Laws or the power of the Sword Well they acknowledg that the Image and Superscription on the Tribute-Money was Caesar's upon which he replies Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's The plain meaning of which Answer is this That since by the very Impres●ion on their Money it is evident that Caesar is their Soveraign Lord they must render to him all the Rights of Soveraignty among which Tribute is one as St. Paul tells us Render therefore unto all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13.7 Whatever is due to Soveraign Princes and does not interfere with their Duty to God that they must give to Caesar who at this time was their Soveraign In which Answer there are several things observable 1. That our Saviour does not examine into Caesar's Right nor ●ow he came by this Soveraign Power b●t as 〈◊〉 found him in possession of it so he leaves him and requires them to render to him all the Rights of Soveraignty 2. That he does not particularly determine what the things of Caesar are that is what his Right is as a Soveraign Prince Hence some men conclude that this Text can prove nothing that we cannot learn from it what our Saviour's Judgment was in this Point that it is only a subtil Answer which those who ask the Question could make nothing of which was a proper return to their ensnaring Question This I think is as great a Reproach to our Saviour as they can well cast upon him that He who was the Wisdom of God the great Pro●het and Teacher of Mankind should return as Sophistical and doubtful Answers as the Heathen Oracles and that in a Case which required and would admit a very plain Answer It is true many times our Saviour when He discourst of what concern'd His own Person or the Mysteries of His Kingdom which were not fit at that time to be publisht in plain terms used a Mistical Language as when he called his Body the Temple or he taught them by Parables which were not obvious at the first hearing but still what he said had a certain and determined sense and what was obscure and difficult he explained privately to his Apost●es that in due time they might explain it to others but to assert as these men must do that Christ gave them such an answer as signified nothing and which he intended they should understand nothing by shews that they are not so civil to our Saviour as these Pharis●es and Herodians were who at least owned in compliment Master we know that thou ar● true and teachest the way of God in Truth neither carest thou for any Man for thou regard●st not the Person of Men. But certainly the Pharisees did believe that there was something in our Saviours answer for they marvelled and left him and went their way And yet those who had wit enough to ask such ensnaring Questions could not be so dull as to be put off wi●h a Sophistical Answer an Art below the gravity of our Saviour's Pers●n and Office but would have urged it a little f●r●her had they not been sensible that they were sufficiently answered and had nothing to reply For indeed can any thing be plainer than our Saviour's Answer They ask him whether it were lawful to pay Tribute to Caesar he does not indeed in express words say that they should pay Tribute to Caesar but he gives them such an Answer as withal convinc'd them of the Reason and Necessity of it He asks whose Image and superscription was on the Tribute-Money they tell him Caesars from whence he infers Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's Therefore Wherefore because the Tribute-Money had Caesars Image on it therefore they must render to Caesar the things that are Caesars which certainly signifies that Tribute was one of those things which belonged to Caesar and must be rendred to him as appeared by having Caesar's Image Not as if every thing that had Caesar's