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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37291	A paraphrase and commentary upon the epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans by William Day ...	Day, William, ca. 1605-1684.	1666 (1666)	Wing D473; ESTC R6047	560,180	444

best means to overcome evil For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Sophocles speaks in his Ajax Flagister kindness doth all ways bring forth kindness CHAP. XIII 1. LEt every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of God The powers that be are ordained of God 1. Let every one be subject to the Supream Powers and to those which are placed in the highest Seats of Authority and that with their very soul for there is no power or Authority of what Nation or Country soever I speak of Lawful Powers but it is of God The Powers and Rulers that are throughout the whole world whether in Rome or in Greece or any other part of the earth though some Jews think otherwise and account God to have ordained no Powers or Rulers whom they should obey though they live under them but in and among themselves are ordained of God 2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation 2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power and taketh Arms against him resisteth the Ordinance of God And they that resist shall for that resistance receive to themselves damnation Damnation temporal in this life from mans tribunal for that that they resist him And damnation eternal from the Tribunal of the great and terrible God in the life to come for that that they resist his Ordinance 3. For rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evil Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same 3. But perhaps you will say that if ye should be subject to these powers and put your neck under their yoke ye should be always in fear For such powers are always a terrour to those which live under them But to this I answer that though ye are subject to such powers yet ye have no cause to fear if ye do well and if ye do ill ye are worthy to suffer for it For Rulers are not a terrour to those which do well but to those which do ill Wilt thou then not be afraid of the Ruler do that which is good and thou shalt be so far from having cause to be afraid of him as that thou shalt have praise and encouragement from him 4. For he is the minister of God to thee for good but if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil 4. For he is the Minister of God to thee for good to reward thee and defend thee if thou dost well but if thou dost that which is evil be afraid For he hath a sword given him of God to cut of them which deserve death from the face of the earth And he beareth not his sword in vain For he is the Minister and servant of God a Revenger in his stead to execute wrath upon him that doth evil 5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake 5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject to the Supream powers and Rulers not only if you intend to avoid wrath and punishment but also if you would keep your conscience void of offence 6. For for this cause pay you tribute also for they are Gods ministers attending continually upon this very thing 6. And now being that rulers are as I said the Ministers of God to thee for good see that you pay them tribute also for they are Gods Ministers to thee for good attending continually upon this very thing to wit that thou maist receive benefit by their Government 7. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour 7. Render therefore to all Rulers of what Countrey or Nation soever they are so long as thou livest under their government that which is due to them Render tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour 8. Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law 8. Yea owe not any private man any thing but to love one another And that is a debt which ye must always owe yet always pay Love therefore one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law that is that part of the Law which concerneth our neighbour 9 For this Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness Thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self 9. For this Commandment thou shalt not commit adultery and this thou shalt not kill and this thou shalt not steal and this thou shalt not covet and if there be any other Commandment beside these concerning our neighbour it is briefly and summarily comprehended in this saying Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self 10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the law 10. Love worketh no ill to his Neighbour yea it worketh all good it can for him Therefore is love the fulfilling of the Law 11. And that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation neerer then when we believed 11. Love therefore one another as I said vers 8. and that considering the time that it is now high time for us who since our calling to the Gospel have fallen asleep and have thereby left off to do well to awake out of that our sleep For now is our salvation neerer than when we first believed therefore if when we first believed we did rouse up our selves and were zealous in good works because of the approach of our salvation much more should we rouze up our selves now and be more zealous now than we were then because our salvation is neerer now than it was at that time 12. The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light 12. The night of ignorance is gone the day of knowledge is risen and hath shone upon us let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and works of the night evill works which cannot indure the light and let us put on the armour of light let us cloath our selves with such works as we shall not be ashamed of at the highest time of day 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying 13. Let us do that which is honest as they are wont to do which do any thing in the day time let us not walk in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in

God to thee for good and from those again He is the Minister of God v. 4. The Apostle doth repeat here in this verse by way of inference or collection out of what he hath said what he gave in charge or command in the beginning of the Chapter concerning being subject to the highest powers but he repeats it with a polite addition of that that we must do it not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Ver. 6. For for this cause pay ye tribute also q. d. I said verse 4. That the Ruler is the Minister of God to thee for good wherefore being that he is the Minister of God to thee for good for this cause be ye not only subject to him as I said verse 5. but pay ye tribute also I take For here for Wherefore as it is taken Chap. 8.38 And I take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pay ye to be not of the Indicative but of the Imperative Mood though most Interpreters take it for a Verb of the Indicative Mood For the Jews were never forward in paying tribute to any Heathen power but when tribute was demanded they raised commotions and rebellions upon it as we may read Acts 5.37 And in Josephus and Suetonius and others wherefore there was need of a particular precept for this Tribute was money raised upon the goods and lands of the People according to their ability for the support of the Rulers in their great and expensive offices To pay tribute is a part of subjection but though the Apostle had given a charge to the Romans in general to be subject yet doth he add this in particular that they should pay Tribute because the Jews many of which lived at this time at Rome were averse from it And it is a part of Rhetorique to mention a particular after a general or a species after a genus when there is a reason for taking special notice of the species See Chap. 1. v. 21. For they are Gods Ministers attending upon this very thing i. e. For they are Gods Ministers I say attending upon this very same thing viz. which I spoke of ver 4. that is attending upon your good What this thing was which they attended on we must gather from what went before If Rulers are Gods Ministers and attend by his appointment upon our good they are worthy of tribute upon a double account First as they are Gods Ministers whose is the Earth and all things therein contained And Secondly because they do attend upon our good This is an argument to perswade to the willing paying of tribute Ver. 7. Render therefore to all their dues i. e. Render therefore to all the highest powers whatsoever they are and in what parts of the world soever their dominion is that which is due to them from you which live under their dominion This being the Imperative mood makes it the more propable that that must be of the imperative mood also ver 6. Viz. For this cause pay ye tribute also Tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome What tribute was we said ver 6. Now custom is a tole or tax that is paid for importation or exportation that is for carrying of Merchandise into or out of a land Fear to whom fear By fear is here meant Reverential fear or rather that reverence or reverent carriage which proceedeth from reverential fear per Metonymiam causae Honour to whom honour i. e. Render all the signs and expressions of the high esteem which you have or ought to have of his Excellencie whom God hath made excellent by reason of his authority Honour is the sign of an esteem which we have of anothers excellency And we ought highly to esteem and therefore to shew the signs of this our esteem of the excellency of power which is in the supream Rulers as they are Gods Vicegerents Although perhaps for their life and conversation they should otherwise be wicked All these four things which the Apostle here mentioneth Viz. Tribute Custom Fear and Honour are not so disjoyned in nature but that they may belong to one and the same powers and Rulers Ver. 8. Owe no man any thing but to love one another q. d. Pay to every man that debt which you owe so that you may owe it him no more except it be that debt of love which though you pay alwayes by doing the duties of love one to another yet ye must alwayes owe. This is a new precept different from that which went before though perhaps it may have its place here by occasion of those words Viz. Render to all their dues Ver. 7. The former precept which the Apostle hath amplified and pursued from the first verse of this Chapter hitherto concerned the duty of subjects towards those which were their Rulers as such But this precept concerns the duty of a private man to a private man as such There be duties or debts which when they are once paid are due no more as debts for mony borrowed wares bought or the like and there are such dues or debts which we must continually pay as we have occasion and yet they will never be quite paid or never be so paid as that we owe them not any more and such are the duties of love which we owe by vertue of Gods command every one one to another The former kind of debts the Apostle would have us so to pay when they are due as that we owe them no more the second kind of debts he would have us owe but yet so owe as that we should notwithstanding be daily paying them for this is the Apostles meaning Charitas semper redditur semper debetur saith Saint Augustine in Psal 33 Tim. 8. page 94. Charity is alwayes paid and yet alwayes owing But here some make an obj●ction saying the Apostle said Ver. 7. Rend●r fear to whom fear is due and honour to whom honour But if the Apostle would have us to owe nothing but to love one another than would he not have us to owe f●ar or to owe honour to our Rulers for he seems to think of them as dues or debts which we may so pay at the present as that we may be discharged of them for the future Answ To this some give this answer Viz. The Apostle when he saith But to love one another he doth under the name and duty of love comprehend the duties and acts of all other vertues too because they are to be directed by love and to proceed from thence whereas therefore fear and honour are acts of other vertues which are to be directed by love and to proceed from thence They must be as love is alwayes in paying and never paid We must alwayes pay them and still owe them But perhaps we may say in answer to the aforesaid objection that the Apostle gives this his precept not to subjects as subjects and in relation to their superiors but to private men in relation to Private-men And therefore