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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08550	Cesars due and the subjects duty, or, A present for Cesar in a sermon preach't in the Minster at Yorke at the assizes there holden Aug. 3, 1663 by way of recantation of some passages in a former sermon preached in the same place and pulpit at the last assizes immediately before it / both of them by Thomas Bradley.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4129; ESTC R212809	20,280	40

are strong rights and do give unto him an unquestionable Title to all those things that are by all or any of these wayes made his As to the first of these wayes it werehigh presumption in me to undertake to give in an account which are his in the right of his Crown such things there are and they are great and many which are flowers of the Crown which no Subject may presume to touch much lesse to crop off under pain of being guilty of an high Crime on taking away from Cesar things that ere Cesars But secondly those things are Cesars which by the Law of God are given unto him and they are great many the Question here moved is only concerning Tribute Shall we pay tribute to Cesar or not but the Answer is larger then the Question and injoyns and includes not only Tribute but all other dues whatsoever the things that are Cesars And there are six things which by the Law of God are clearly given to Cesar first Fear 2. Honour 3. Obedience active and passive 4. Defence 5. Prayer and 6. Tribute 1. Fear Proverbs 24.21 My Son fear thou the Lord and the King 2. Honour 1 Pet 2.13 Fear God honour the King 3. Obedience Eccles 8 2. I councell thee to obey the Kings command and that because of the Oath of God 4. Defence Psal 105.15 Touch not mine anointed 5. Prayer 1 Tim 2.1 I exhort therefore first of all that supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men especially for Kings 6. Tribute as in the Text and Context These are all due unto Cesar and that jure divin● by divine right and that 's the highest and the best right and therefore if we fail in the payment of any of them we are guilty of witholding from Cesar his Right we do not pay unto Cesar the things that are Cesars But because the question here moved is particularly concerning tribute the last of these six and that 's the very Subject of the dispute in the Text. 't is fit I should more particularly speak to it for be you well assured that not for their sakes alone was this Question here ask't nor for their satisfaction alone was the resolution given to it but for ours also and for all Subjects in all places and in all ages to the end of the world according to the severall Lawes Customes Usages under which they respectively live who would be as ready to question the due of it as they here were I shall therefore endeavour to shew first from authority of Scripture 2ly from the example and practice of former times 3ly by strong and unanswerable reasons not only the justice lawfullnesse but the equity reasonablenesse of paying Tribute unto Cesar And first for Scriptures they are clear and plentifull Rom. 13.7 Render to every man his due tribute to whom tribute belongeth and in the 6 verse For this cause pay we tribute So there is a tribute to be paid and there is a cause for it which the Apostle there shewes at large And of the four Evangelists three of them have given this very charge and in the same words an itteration not usual in the Scripture unlesse it be in some serious matter which they would have well taught and learn't Matt 22.21 Marke 12.17 Luke 20 25. Rom 13.6 7 8. Solvite sayes one Text Redite sayes another Give sayes a third As a Debt sayes one As a due sayes another As his own sayes a third Thus you have it from Scriptures clear with line upon line precept upon precept commanded and enjoyned and by the Authority thereof a Revenue setled upon Cefar Secondly for Examples see Solomon the wisest of Kings extraordinarily assisted by almighty God for the Government of his people he had his publique Revenue and great Tributes paid in unto him for the support of his Government and for this purpose he had his Officers to gather them in in all his Provinces and over all the rest one great Officer of State to take their Audits and Accounts his great Treasurer as you may call him that was Adoniram he was over the Ttibute 1 King 4.6 And after him Rehoboam his sonne who was King in his stead had the like Officer in the same trust and that was Adoram 1 King 12.18 he was over the Tribute Amaziah levyed a Taxe 2 Chron 25.9 of 100 Talents Menahem another 2 Kings 15.19.20 of 1000 Talents of silver a great Taxe of 50 shekeles a man In Augustus time there was a new taxe imposed upon the People and it was a great one there came out a Decree that all the world should be taxed that is all that were under the Roman Empire and these were extraordinary taxes besides the standing Revenue imposed by a new Decree upon occasion and yet they were paid where in the last of them the paines was more then the pay for every one was to repair to his own Citie and Tribe that he belonged to to be taxed Luke 2. In our Saviours time we read of certain Officers appointed on purpose to gather up this Tribute-money among the Jews they were called Publicanes allwayes rank't with sinners and on the right hand but what do we speak of these our Lord himselfe did not only by his command enjoyn it but by his example confirme and second it himselfe paid tribute unto Cesar Mat. 17.27 what need we any further witnesse Thirdly As Scripture doth command it and example confirme it so reason doth perswade it and strongly evince and demonstrate the equity and necessity of it and I shall give you these five reasons of it 1. The first is drawn from the consideration of his publique Office his publique capacitie you must not look upon Cesar as a meer man but as a Magistrate as a man cloathed with majesty a King a Soveraign the head of the Tribes a Collective person in whom the many thousands of Israell are united and represented as the Sunne in the firmament which hath influence upon all and all an interest in him as the soul in the body which by the spirits the cursitors of it conveyes life and sense and motion to all and every even the least Members of it such is Cesar in his Dominions as the Sunne in the firmament and as the soul in and to the naturall body so is he to the body politique It is but reason that publique persons in publique capacities should be publiquely supported 2. As Cesar is a publique person so 't is for the publique that he layes out himselfe and that which he receives for the publique behoof for the publique service for the publique good as to himselfe what hath Cesar of all that is brought in more then will serve one man he eats no more he drinks no more he wears no more whatsoever is used about him more then will serve him as a man is to be charg'd upon his Office not upon his person it is to be imputed to him