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The two-folde tribute or two speciall duties commanded by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to be rendred: the first of subiects to their Cæsar, the second of Christians to their God: for the better furtherance of the one in his regall dignitie, and of the other in his Eulangelicall ministerie. Explaned in two sermons and now published. Anno. 1613. By Richard Eburne
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Eburne, Richard.
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plentifullie and admirably And sith as God himselfe saith This is the very honour that he expecteth at our hands sith as the Kingly Prophet telles vs it pleaseth God better then the oblation of many Psalm 50. 23. fatted beasts or the smell of much incense and sith as the Apostle S. Paul teacheth vs this euen this giuing of thanks 1. Tim. 2. 3. for all men and namely or specially for Kings is a thing good acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour let euery one of vs in particular say with Dauid quid retribuam Domino Psalm 116. 12. c. That is What shall I render vnto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done vnto me and namely in placing ouer me so good so gratious and so worthy a King and resolue with Dauid I will take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord I will offer to him the sacrifice of thankesgiuing And let vs all say as the Queene of Sheba 2. Chron. 9. 8. did concerning King Salomon 2. Chron. 9. Blessed bee the Lord thy God O King which loued thee to set thee on his throne in the stead of the Lord thy God because thy God loueth our land to establish it for euer therefore hath hee made thee King ouer vs to execute iudgement and iustice The second generall part HItherto haue I shewed you beloued in the Lord our dutie to Caesar consisting in sixe things viz. Feare Honour Obedience Tribute defence and Prayer Now let vs consider also according to my promise as God shall assist and time permit me some motiues and inducements to this duty And to that purpose that we may neuer slide either by the corruption of our owne heart or the perswasion of men or suggestion of the Diuell I will since the wisest either of Kings or men affirmeth that a threefold cable is not easily broken shew you a fourefolde corde which may well kept and obserued euer hold the whole heart Eccles 4. 12. and soule of euery subiect in loue and Allegiance to his Soueraigne the seuerall twists whereof are these viz. 1. The ordination of Caesar 2. The haynousnesse of the crime of disloyalty against Caesar 3. The punishments of that sinne 4. The rewards of Loyalty and dutifulnesse to Caesar Motiue 1 1. Concerning the former of these neither any wicked spirit nor mortal man nor Heauenly Angell but God himselfe The Ordination of Caesar is hee that ordaineth Caesar to bee Caesar and setteth him vpon his throne This is euident by many proofes of holy Scripture generall and particular Generall partly negatiue and partly affirmatiue 1. Negatiue as where Christ saide vnto Pilate Thou Ioh. 19. 11. couldest haue no power at all against mee except it were giuen thee from aboue And the Apostle vnto vs all There is no Rom. 13. 1. power but of God To whom agreeth the Psalmist when he singeth thus Promotion commeth neither from the East nor Psal 75. 7. from the West nor yet from the South And why For God is the Iudge He putteth downe one and setteth vp another 2. Affirmatiue for By mee saith the vncreated wisedome Prou. 8. 15. of God doe Kings raigne and Princes decree iustice The name of God be praised saith Daniel the Prophet chap. Dan. 2. 21. 2. for Wisedome and strength are his He changeth times seasons he setteth vp Kings and taketh them away And the blessed Apostle in the place before alleaged telleth vs directly that The powers that bee are ordained of God To Rom. 13. 1. these we may adde the words of the wiseman speaking to all rulers in this sort Giue eare ye that rule the nations and Wisd 6. 23. glory in the multitudes of people for the Rule is giuen you of the Lord and power by the most high Particular which do consist in God his immediate designement of diuers vnto kingdomes as of Saul whom by the hand of Samuel he annointed to be Head ouer his 1. Sam. 10. 1. people and whom by the same Prophets mouth he testifieth to the people that he had chosen to be King ouer them Of Hazael and of Iehu appointing his seruant Elijah to Vers 24. 1. Kin. 19. 15. 16 annoint the one of them King ouer Syria the other ouer Israel According wherunto Daniel telleth Nebuchad that great King of Babel which yet knew not God That the Dan. 2. 37. God of Heauen had giuen him a Kingdome power strength and glorie and had deliuered not the men onely that dwelled on the face of the earth but also the very beasts of the field and the foules of the heauen into his hand and made him ruler ouer them all Likewise for Salomon the sonne of Dauid the Queene of Sheba can tell vs that it was the Lord 2. Chron. 9. 8. God of Israel that had set him on his throne in his steed to be King ouer his people and both for Salomon and Dauid his Father Dauid himselfe the man after Gods owne heart doth most plainely testifie in this sort The Lord God chose mee 2. Chron. 28. 4. before all the house of my Father to bee King ouer Israell for euer among all the sonnes of my Father he delighted in mee to make me King ouer his people and euen so of all my sonnes hee hath chosen Salomon my sonne to sitte vpon the throne of the Kingdome of the Lord. Thus it is most manifest that Caesar is ordained to be Caesar by God and therefore vnto him as vnto the ordinance of God wee ought to yeeld whatsoeuer is Caesars lest in reiecting him we reiect God Obiection That this is so of all good Princes all goodmen wil easily grant But since that an euill Prince is a great euill an extreame plague it is a question with some how such a one can be of God or be said to be set in place by God who is the spring from whence all goodnesse and onely Iam. 1. goodnes doth flow Answere Though the particulars before recited doe sufficiently prooue not onely the good but euill Princes also to bee Gods ordinance For who are euill if Saul if Hazael if Nebuchadnezzar were not and the generals extending to all do necessarily comprehend both good euill Yet farther and more fully to cleare this doubt wee must vnderstand beloued in the Lord that there is Malum culpae and Malum Poenae an euill of crime and an euill of paine The euill of crime is sinne the euill of paine is the punishment of sinne the euill of crime is not of God God being all sufficient needs it not beeing most holy commands it not being most righteous approues it not in a word hee hateth accurseth it in all in this world and in all the impenitent will condemne it eternally in the world to come But the euill of paine being the punishment of sin is thrown from the throne of God vpon the heads of