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…

Christ aleth his disciples, they are salt, and they are light. Salt must needs be sharp to a rotten wound. Light must needs be painful to a […]. A good Ph•ution must needs trouble and disquiet his sick patient, before he can heal his disease: and a good surgeon must needs trouble and rip up •tered wounds. We are Sur •eous, we are •tions. The word of God is committed unto us, that by us it mi• be applied to season the earth, and that the light there of shonl• shine forth in all the wor•. Cr•put aloud, lift up •hy voice as a trumpet. If ¹the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who wa• prepare himself to the battle? When God had called Jeremy to the office of a Prophet, & said, Thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, ⟨p. 54⟩²and whatsoever I command thee shalt thou speak: he said further, Fear not their faces, least I destroy thee before them. For behold this day, I have made thee a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass against the whole land. Thou shalt not bend, thou shalt not yield. Thou shalt be a consuming fire: they shall be stubble before thee. Likewise saith God to Abraham, Fear not Abraham, I am thy buckler, ³and thine exceeding great reward. When Mo•es sought to refuse the message, & thought himself over simple to go unto Pharaoh, God answered, Certainly I will be with thee. •nd ⁴after he saith, I have made thee Pharaoh God, ⁵