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Show p L 49 3‘ E 48 3 3'6 "tirrrrnj'irioe: damnation 3. Can any thing be more eXplicit? By the molt moderate interpretation this threatening muft denote divine punifhment either here or hereafter. No limitation is annexed, from man to whom they had not previoufly, either per.~ {on-ally, or by their rttprelhritntives, freely given and granted it? But with this doc‘ftrine, it fieins the apollle was it tcrly unacquainted. extend to the fulijeéts of only one fpecies of civil The Jews indeed had a fyitem of their own with regard to taxing, quite difi-"erent from the American polity. h'ingifimtes, on the contrary, are here de- fyiiem, (of which they certainly had no conception) noted by terms of the molt cxtenlivc fignificarion, that we may know that the intention was to com- hut plainly pointing to the {atria ohjefl, an exemp- which we can learn that the precept was meant to They are tz'm. Their doétrine was, tho ‘ God's elect people, ‘ the holy nation, the defeendarfs of the putritu‘ehs, the big/3w", or the ruiing powers, and the power: ‘ were not taxable by idolaters their as the Romans, that be, thofe under the eonduCt of providence fettled amonglt you, democratieal or monarchieal, hereditary or eleftive. And if we enquire, What were the powers aflually in being at the time, to which ‘ uncircumcifed and profane.' This was the grand topic of declamation of their patriots; for tiny too had their patriots. Their ohjee‘tion, as it had tome colour from the Old Tenement, could not fail to appear plaufible to a peopie with whole prejrmlices, prehend thofe under every confiitution. the people were commanded to he fuhjeét? The anfwer is plain, They were the powers of the Roman government, not of the commonwealth, but of the emnire, a new fpeeles of military monarchy, elefiive indeed, but not by the people either collectively or pride, and feliii'hnefs it perieftly coincided. lint did our Saviour, when coxrl‘ulted by them, give his atiétiori to their fentiments 3 Did he by his anfwer court popularity, and the fame ofpgtf'iorg'fliz .5' I rife the term in its modern degradation. hire the everfeo Though, by his manner of anfivering, he reprcfimtatirely, irregular, arbitrary, and fuch as {uited not in any refine/5t what modem theorilis call fifty? and i'rg‘iz‘z'rrtatc' govcrnnzrizz‘. In regard to tribute, the point {0 hotly agitated queil‘ion, nothing can he more decifive than his with us at prefent, reply. nothing can he more exprer‘s. eluded the malice .123 energies fiiowed in putting the After afiting the: . to thew him the tributeo Rflldé'l‘ 2‘0 (£17 Mair dyer, z'rit'trft' 1‘0 'Z-L'l.‘07}2 trim/1‘6 z'r money, and being told that it here (iefnr's image (173/8, czflovz 2‘0 uni-3m (if/92;], fear to "rt/39722 fl'dl‘, and {r'peri‘criptiom he immediately rejoined, Render z'z'm aft/re, 2‘0 Ctflzr t/m tr'zizzg: whit/J are Ccylzr'r, and 7107:0217' to whom lmzozzr l‘. What {hell we fay to this pafiizge, ifall cui'tom and tribute are naturally and offen- to God the things which are God's 3, plainly intimat- tialiy,fi-eeg;fis on the part of the people, and if confe- ing, that as they derived the odva: rages of proteé‘tion queutiy no tribute or culiom could be due to any " Rom. xiii. I, z. '0 ver. 7. and civil order from the Roman government, of which the currency of its coin was an evidence, 3 Mat, exit at. |