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Show l" 53 E 52 1 hand, he might appear a dutiful fubj e& to the pagan malrillrate, and on the other, might luggel't to chtif 1? their pollerit} to perpetual fervittide.' ct Lhof'e (I: it who can; Io.vn it is impoliihle for me to reeenciic thislanguage with that of the go?gel tinns 2111 excellent pretence for eluding the obligation, by maintaining that there13 none to wnont tribute is :1 Nothing has :1"onilhccl me more in the Court‘e 01:11.13 (1113.* Far be fuch vile nttifices, the dit1g 3. seven of jtfuits, from the {elect miliionanes of 'll‘lil‘ TRU AND FAIIHFUL WITNESS. Far be fuch ex. Cerable cmuillry from being charged on the .3011? of GOD, the ORACLE of truth. Indeed if the xvhole pallage is attended to, we {hall find that the apollle has left no {cope for this poor fubter uge. For 1/22'1' mufe, {'in he, pay 31: tribute (21/9, for they are controveny, thin to nbferve th at fornelenrned 111111 on the oppofite licle fhould imaeine, that they can concilizte thri'11 faVonn'te maxims with the precepts of the gmpe1 One in particular, of Whole abilitits and pietyl hp"NC a vtrv g'rezt opinion, and to whole fentiments I have111 this tilcoizrllt {rednently nllnded, has (I am convinced very tincerelgl belton'ed the higheft encominms on chrillinnitv as me {111" 111111.11 ol religion and of renfon. But truth Compels 11131 to rcmat.1, that, if the principles of his nmty he \vrlI-F111nw' thofe encondinns me exceedingly 1riifplaced;thci1 {5121121111th He does not hefitate to aicribe to them a havin'; a greater enemy (111111 th than the gol'pcl. Once admit their notions ofthe 0120'sz min! [tint/[mars governing/1!; and v1: divine eommillion, in the character even of taxerr. transform the p11 hlilhcrs of our relivion into ureachers of lime- (3012': 7132'an173m (dreading continua/fir on 2212i: wry thing. Now nothing is more certain than that in the Roman empire in thofe days, the people, throughout the provinces, were allefhid either by the imperial authority, or bythe fenate; and had nofhnre, either perfonally, or by reprefentatives, in all'eiling themi'elvcs. For the fenate was not chol'en by the people. Iintt'eat you, my brethren, for the fake of frat/7, for the {alt of that wort/y name by which ye aze cal/rd, {or the lake ofyozzroown/02151.1, and thofej of your /"c.//'97.th"/)ilf' tinny, to compare impartially the langmge of our 1'y,laotl1 internal and external. To'111 cnlcnte on the l?11111.11.1s, clietlience to rulers on whom thev had no check, an l inh.11111111111‘ 1 edit ls in ti--e framing of which they hid no lhare, lire‘lly cr indixet‘l'y; what vaas_.it, on the 151M111 of out 11n1e1ican 1.1:vccntes, if it was not preaching up infer/21'?! j'i'c.‘?£ry which {obj-3&3 the community to the will ofn part? And in regard to other nations as jews and Greeks, to 1':.:1r.1r::.nd 12214171 to obey the emperor, and magiftrates dcputed Ly him ; what was it, let's than preaching up external/25211119131 which l'uhjet‘ls nations to a (liltant and foreign power? As to this fort, we are not left to infer it. We are told plainly, " Such was the navery of the provinces l'uhjeét to " ancient Rome." Lord and his'apofiles with that of our moiern demagogues: and from the difference ye find in them, judge of the difl'erent fpirit which they breathe. Not :1 {ingle hint do we get from thofe, that ‘ taxation ‘ and reprcfentation are infeparnble,' no fuggefiion that for ‘ chriltinns tamely to ful'rmitin 2111 article OI ‘ this matere would be to facxifice theirlliberties, t0 ‘5 be loll. to every lenfe of virtue, to 1d} thernteh CS and llow unreafonable and injurious then i was it to he an advocate for fuch a power, to attempt to reconcile men to it by maintaining that refinance wi'lexpole them to divine vengeance? Yet on the principles of our 1‘1l‘ttlaries, thus umeafona'nle and thus injurious (there is 11>018Embl1ng it) were Jefus Chrilt and his apollles Peter and Paul. Jefus lnilt to his countrymen in Judea, Peter to the Jensin difpci Hon, and Paul to the Cretans, on whom' he llxiélly enjtnntd 111111; to inculcate thofe enllaving doc: E 2 - |