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
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