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Phil. O disobedient hearts.¹ Did not Mary the mother of Christ & Joseph obey the commandment of Augustus the Emperor, when the whole world should be taxed and went into their City Bethlehem?² Did not Christ himself teach obedience toward the high powers? Did not he pay tribute? Was not he content to dye under the temporal rulers, & confess that their power was given them from above? Did not the Apostles so in like man ner both teach and do? Did not Paul willingly ever obey the public ⟨image 70⟩magistrates Festus & Faelix. &c? Did not all the Bishops and ministers of Gods word so likewise do & teach in the primitive Church,³ until that wicked man the son of perdition came, which exalted him self above all that is called God, in so much that he sitteth in the Temple of God, boasting him self to be God? But the LORD shall slay him with the breath of his mouth, & shall put him to flight with the clearness of his coming. Let it come to pass, O LORD, yea and that shortly. Furthermore was not this the Commandment of Christ:⁴ Pay that to the Emperor that is due to the Emperor, what is due to the Emperor, that is, to the temporal governor, but obedience, fear, honour, tribute. &c. Howe than cann• any man be excepted from the obedience of the temporal power,⁵ be he called spiritual or otherwise? Let ⟨image 71⟩every soul, saith S. Paul, as ye heard before, be obedient to the powers ye bear rule. Again he saith warn them that they submit them selves unto Princes & to the higher authority,⁶ to obey the Officers, S. Peter also saith, submit your selves to all manner of ordinance of men for the LORDS sake,