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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.
Why should any man resist the wisdom of God? and deny the people the bread whereon they should feed: the light by which they may safely walk: the hearing and reading of the word, by which they may be turned to GOD from idols, to serve the living and true God? they have cruel hearts, and are enemies to the glory of God, and to the salvation of his people, which in such sort deny them the knowledge of the Scriptures.
Why should any man resist the wisedom of God? and denie the people the breade whereon they should féed: the light by which they maie safelie walke: the hearing and reading of the word, by which they may be turned to GOD from idols, to serue the liuing and true God? they haue cruel hearts, and are enimies to the glorie of God, and to the saluation of his people, which in such sorte denie them the knowledge of the Scriptures.
To fulfil their sins always. They have refused the word of reconciliation, they are not contented that they have stoned the prophets, & killed them that were sent to thee, but they yet resist the holy Gospel, & devise means to keep all others from the comfort thereof. This is a token of Gods heavy displeasure upon them, that they repent not of their former •uils, but grow worse and worse. When the Scribes & Pharisees seemed to •ike the cruelty of their fathers, & said, if they had been in their days, they would not have been partners with them ⟨p. 83⟩in the uloud of the prophets: our saviour maketh their hypocrisy known, that herein they should be like to their fathers, for they should kill and crucify the prophets and wise men, and scourge them in their synagogues, & persecute them from city to city, & said to them: Fulfil ye also the measure of your fathers. The cause of 1this judgement of God in giving over the wicked to increase the heap of their sins, the Apostle setteth down to the Romans, As they regarded