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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.
The Pharisees sought to please men, and to deceive the people. They taught them to walk in the ways of their forefathers, to believe as they believed, to do as they had done. They flattered them, and said you are the Church of God, you are Gods people, you are the sons of Abraham, you can not err, you can not be deceived. They that in this sort flatter the people and deceive them, they serve not Jesus Christ, but their belly, and through flattery and fair speech seduce the hearts of the simple.
The Pharises sought to please men, and to deceiue the people. They taught them to walk in the waies of their forefathers, to beléetie as they beléeued, to doe as they had done. They flattered them, and saide you are the Church of God, you are Gods people, you are the sonnes of Abraham, you can not erre, you can not be deceiued. They that in this sorte flatter the people and deceiue them, they serue not Iesus Christ, but their bellie, and through flatterie and faire spéech seduce the hearts of the simple.
Nor coloured covetousness. The Scribes & the Pharisees devoured up widows houses under pretence of their long prayers: they prayed, and made money of their prayers: they gave alms, and made money of their alms giving: they fasted, and made money of their fasting. This did the Scribes & the Pharisees: their doings continue still: they be dead, their name is taken away, but their profession abideth. As they made gains of their prayers, & alms, & fasting: so do some now make great gains, & war rich under pretence of holiness. They have brought in a profession of wilful chastity, & forbidden marriage in some whole estate of men. No doubt ⟨p. 57⟩•astitie is a holy thing. But they have given licence for money, to such as would, to forsake their vow of chastity. They have forbidden to eat certain meats, upon certain days. God left meats as free to the choice of every man, as he left his sun to shine freely to the use of all men. And they make free liberty for money, to eat what every man liketh. They make money of Purgatory, money of pardons, and money of their Masses. They make money of Peter, and of Paul, of the Apostles, and Martyrs, and of Christ himself. These are they of whom Saint Peter speaketh,