John Trapp on Luke 2:3
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Luke2:3
Verse 3. And all went to be taxed] To pay a certain small sum of money in token of fealty. I was once at a Court-Sermon (saith Melancthon) on the Nativity-day, and this was the Text: but the Preacher, instead of discoursing on Christs [illegible: 1 word],Joh. Manl. loc. [illegible: 1 word]. 479. spent the whole hour, in a very cold day, in perswading the people to obey Magistrates, and to give them as much money as they call for. This is the guise of Court-Parasites, Princes trencher-Flyes.
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