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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.
Who would think there were any that would hinder the course of the Gospel•? or forbid to preach it unto the people? The Upon here layeth that fault to the Jews, That they forbid him to preach to the Gentiles. The same fault Christ found in the Scribes and Pharisees, Woe be to you, interpreters of 1the law: for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in your selves, and them that came in the forbade. S• there have been always, and such there are now. O say they, why should y• people know these things what should they meddle with the scriptures? let them do their business, and apply their occupations. It is not reason, not fit, that every one should be learned. When they think they know somewhat, they become proud, and devise heresies and maintain them: as if God had not left them to instruct the people: or, as if the holy scriptures, and not the malice at Satan, were the cause of heresies.
Who would thinke there were any that would hinder the course of the Gospel•? or forbid to preach it unto the people? The Apo•e here layeth that fault to the Jewes, That they forbid him to preach to the Gentiles. The same fault Christ founde in the Scribes and Pharises, Woe be to you, interpreters of 1the lawe: for ye haue taken away the keye of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in ye forbad. S• there haue béene alwaies, and such there are now. O say they, why should y• people know these thinges what should they meddle with the scriptures? let them do their businesse, and apply their occupations. It is not reason, not fit, that euery one should be learned. When they thinke they know somewhat, they become proud, and denise heresies and maintaine them: as if God had not left them to enstruct the people: or, as if the holy scriptures, and not the malice at S•tan, were the cause of heresies.
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