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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 the cause why so many so little regard the word of GOD? Why they doubt it, and suspect it? Why they are so soon weary of it, and bear it not that reverence, that belongeth to it? Because they think not, neither from whom it cometh, nor with whose blood it is sealed, nor to Inhose benefit it is written. Let us not be ashamed to give place to the word of GOD, to awake our senses, and to submit them, and our wisdom and learning, and bodies, and souls unto it. Let us not harden our hearts, Let us humble our selves before God, and say, Behold, 1here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good in his eyes.
What is the cause why so manie so little regarde the worde of GOD? Why they doubt it, and suspect it? Why they are so soone wearie of it, and beare it not that reuerence, that belongeth to it? Bicause they thinke not, neither from whome it commeth, nor with whose bloud it is sealed, nor to Inhose benefite it is written. Let vs not be ashamed to giue place to the worde of GOD, to awake our senses, and to submit them, and our wisedome and learning, and bodies, and soules vnto it. Let vs not harden our hearts, Let vs humble our selues before God, and saie, Beholde, 1here am I, let him doe to me as seemeth good in his eies.
Which also worketh in you that believe. Whosoever heareth the words of God, and doth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man that buildeth his house upon the sand. If ye know these things (saith Christ) blessed are 1ye, if ye do them. The same word of God which Paul taught the Thessalonians, which was preached by Peter, and the rest of the Apostles to the faithful, which Christ received of his father, and delivered to his Church, is this day by the mercy of God purely, and truly set down unto you. By it you are required to amend your lives, and comforted in the promises of GOD to the forgiveness of your sins. If there he any, in whom it worketh not this effect: if there be any, which (though they hear it) believe it not, nor are thereby renewed in their minds: it is a token, that they have not received the love of the trueth of the Gospel: they despise the word of salvation, and it shall judge them in that day.