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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What is their meaning to speak, and pray in the Church in a strange tongue? This is a cloak of their shame. Their priests be so unlearned, they can scarce understand english, yet they save their credit, seeing they are able to read latin. And hereby they cover all their blasphemies, and superstitions: because the people can not understand, and therefore not reprove them.
What is their meaning to speake, and pray in the Church in a straunge tongue? This is a cloake of their shame. Their priestes be so vnlearned, they can scarce vnderstand english, yet they saue their credite, séeing they are able to reade latine. And hereby they couer al their blasphemies, and superstitions: because the people can not vnderstande, and therefore not reproue them.
I speak nothing of their relics, pilgrimages, purgatory, and such other cloaks of shame, which they use to hide their covetousness, and thereby draw unto themselves the riches of the whole world. They cannot say with the Apostle, our exhortation was not by deceit, nor uncleanness, nor by guile.
I speake nothing of their reliques, pilgrimages, purgatorie, and such other cloakes of shame, which they vse to hide their couetousnesse, and thereby drawe vnto themselues the riches of the whole worlde. They cannot say with the Apostle, our exhortation was not by deceit, nor vncleannesse, nor by guile.
I know there are some, that lay it unto our charge, as the false Apostles did unto Paul, ⟨p. 47⟩that we use the word of God deceitfully: they find fault with our translations of the Scriptures. They spare not to say, there be a thousand faults in the new Testament. Yet would they never set down 500, or 100, or 50, or 25, or 5.