For this cause; because government is God's institution, and magistrates are his ministers to promote the good of the people.

Pay ye tribute; taxes are justly due to the government for the payment of its officers, and for other needful expenses; and they ought to be freely, conscientiously, and punctually paid.

This very thing; the discharge of the appropriate duties of their office. Men have no more right to defraud the government of its just dues, or to withhold the taxes of the duties which are needful to carry on its operations, than to defraud their fellow-men. And those who in any way do this, sin not only against men, but against God.

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