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Yes, you will learn that, and more than that, and say in peace--"Before I
was troubled I went wrong, but now have I kept thy commandments." And to
such an old age may our Lord Jesus Christ bring you and me and all we
love. Amen.
SERMON XLI. SACRIFICE TO CAESAR OR TO GOD
Eversley, 1869. Chester Cathedral, 1872.
Matthew xxii. 21. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
Many a sermon has been preached, and many a pamphlet written, on this
text, and (as too often has happened to Holy Scripture), it has been made
to mean the most opposite doctrines, and twisted in every direction, to
suit men's opinions and superstitions. Some have found in it a command
to obey tyrants, invaders, any and every government, just or unjust.
Others have found in it rules for drawing a line between the authority of
the State and of the Church, i.e., between what the Government have a
right to command, and what the Clergy have a right to demand; and many
more matters have they fancied that they discovered in the text which I
do not believe are in it at all.
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