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An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…
An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reverend Father John Jewel ... ; whereunto is adjoined a very necessary table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reuerend Father Iohn Ievvel ... ; vvhereunto is adioined a very necessarie table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.
London: printed by Ralfe Newberie, 1584
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In this discourse, as there are many good things fruitfully declared, the use and practise whereof is common to your Honour with all Christians: so are there two matters, the one of Usury, the other of Antichrist: that is, of the bane and poison ⟨image 5⟩of the common wealth, and of the infection and decay of the Church: wherein he bestowed more pains to open them, and make them manifest, that all men might know and abhor them, and beware of them. What hath been wrought by these two mischiefs to the undoing in conscience & substance, and to the utter destruction of the souls and bodies of many thousand subjects of this realm, within these late years, it is to the grief of all good men, too well known.
In this discourse, as there are manie good things fruitfully declared, the vse and practise whereof is common to your Honour with al Christians: so are there two matters, the one of Vsurie, the other of Antichrist: that is, of the bane and poison ⟨image 5⟩of the common wealth, and of the infectiō and decaie of the Church: wherein he bestowed more paines to open them, and make them manifest, that all men might know and abhorre them, and beware of them. What hath beene wrought by these two mischiefes to the vndoing in conscience & substance, and to the vtter destruction of the soules and bodies of manie thousand subiects of this realme, within these late yeares, it is to the griefe of all good men, too wel knowne.
If therefore in the duty of a good Bishop, he standing in his watch, hath descried these enemies to all civil and christian estates, and if now so many years after his entrance into rest by these means he call upon your good Honour, to step forth in fresh courage into the battle of the Lord of hosts, and to use and employ the great gifts of wisdom and authority which God hath bestowed upon you, and to excite and stir up others the worthy and notable captains set over the people, to be a fenced wall between them, and these so perilous monsters, and dangerous enemies: ⟨image 5⟩