A04472:210
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.
To make your hearts stable and unblameable. That nothing move you or trouble you• that your hearts and consciences be quiet: that you may stand upright, and show your lelues in great confidence before his judgement seat: that when you shall see Gods hand stretched out, & his plagues prepared against the wicked, you be not afraid. This is the haven of rest, whereto no man cometh but he that hath a quiet conscience, this is the tabernacle of the highest, wherein they shall dwell, this is the holy mountain, wherein they shall rest, that walk uprightly, and work righteousness, and speak the truth in their heart.
To make your hearts stable and vnblameable. That nothing moue you or trouble you• that your hearts and consciences be quiet: that you may stand vpright, and shewe your lelues in great confidence before his iudgement seate: that when you shal sée Gods haud stretched out, & his plagues prepared against the wicked, you be not afraid. This is the hauen of rest, whereto no man commeth but he that hath a quiet conscience, this is the tabernacle of the highest, wherein they shaldwell, this is the holie mountaine, wherein they shall rest, that walke vprightly, and worke righteousnesse, and speake the truth in their heart.
Here let us consider the rages and tempests of a troubled mind, and of an unquiet conscience: which knoweth that GOD is an avenger of all wickedness, and that death is the due reward of sin: which acknowledgeth him self to be a sinner, and findeth no way how he shall escape Hell fire. This man when he thinketh with him self of these things, he can not but be amazed and disquieted above measure. The sound of the Trumpet is ever in his ears, he heareth the voice of the Judge, saying: stand forth sinner: now declare how thou hast used thy body, give a reckoning of thy ⟨p. 104⟩whole life. Then his conscience beginneth to quake and tremble. Then he needeth no witness to accuse him, nor judge to condemn him. He is both witness and judge against himself.