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Title:  A sermon preached at the publique fast the ninth day of Aug. 1644 at St. Maries, Oxford, before the honorable members of the two Houses of Parliament there assembled by Paul Gosnold ... ; and published by authority.
Author: Gosnold, Paul.
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so we may scape Scot-free and pay nothing. But no penny no Pater-Noster, as good neither the one nor the other, as not both together; both these must meet, or no peace will be concluded. For this deduction is obvious to every mans reason: Our peace we shall never recover, if the rebels may have their will; their will they will have, if we be not provided to breake them of it; provision cannot be made without money, money cannot be had without contribution, therefore out with your purses, and pay for the peace of Ierusalem.I may boldly speake it: He can neither be a good Subject, nor a right honest man, who for the preservation of the King, Religion, Lawes, Liber∣ty, Learning, the Churches and his Countries peace, would not thinke not onely all the money in his purse, but all the bloud in his body well spent. Christ hath commanded us to give vnto Caesar the things that are Caesars▪ and inforced the commandement by his owne example, who as Lord Verulam well observeth, never wrought mira∣cle about money matter, but onely to pay tribute unto Caesar. But enough of this: for he is too much a stranger to these hard times, that thinks to do any good by chargeable doctrines. Now for fighting, although the perversenesse and obstinacy of our 0