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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.
V. 17 Forasmuch brethren, as we were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.
V. 17 Forasmuch brethren, as wee were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.
18 Therefore we would have come unto you, (I Paul, at least once or twice) but Satan hindered us.
18 Therefore wee would haue come vnto you, (I Paul, at least once or twice) but Sathan hindred vs.
He told them before how dearly and tenderly he loved them, exhorting, comforting, and be seeching every of them, as a father his children. He taketh care, least by any means they should doubt of his great good will to ward ⟨p. 85⟩them. And therefore doeth both witness the same, and show them through what cause he hath stayed from them. Such a zeal and care had he over the people. O in what case then are they, that are careless and make no regard of the people of God: which hunt after many livings, and bend not themselves to do good? which serve their own belly, and seek to be rich, and eat up the people of God, as if they were bread? They cannot say they have a desire to see the face of their flock, and that their heart is with them. Howsoever they find time for other matters, they can never take time to know their sheep, and to do the work of their ministry among them. They care not for them, they think not of them. They plant not, they water not, they watch not, they give no warning of the dangers at hand: they teach them not to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, and righteously, and godly in this present world.