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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.
And to work with your own hands. God hath ordained that all sorts of men, should labour, and eat their bread in the sweat of their brows. And here the Apostle doth not only charge them to work, but that they work with-their own hands. Thou that hast hands, and settest them not to work, thou that abusest the grace of God by thy idleness, shalt give an account thereof. What filleth your prisons? what dubbeth and enricheth your ga•wes, but idleness? when your children come to these places, and see they must li•e no longer, whereof complain they, but of idleness? then they curse the time, and their Father and Mother that brought them up in idleness.
And to worke with your owne handes. God hath ordayned that all sorts of men, should labour, and eate their breade in the sweate of their browes. And héere the Apostle doth not onely charge them to worke, but that they worke with-their owne handes. Thou that hast handes, and settest them not to worke, thou that abusest the grace of God by thy idlenesse, shalt giue an account thereof. What filleth your prisons? what dubbeth and enricheth your ga•wes, but idlenesse? when your children come to these places, and sée they must li•e no longer, whereof complaine they, but of idlenesse? then they curse the time, and their Father and Mother that brought them vp in idlenesse.
Though Kings, and Princes, and counsellors, and preachers, and magistrates dig not, and plough not, nor do any handy work, yet they break not therefore the commandment ⟨p. 157⟩of God, they break not this rule of the Apostle. The head walketh not as the •eete nor travaileth as the hands: yet is it not idle. There is no labour comparable to the labour of a Prince. Day and night, sleeping, and waking, he is full of cares, & full of pains. The noble man and magistrate, if he regard his country, be careful for the laws, aid the poor, redress tyranny, comfort the weak, punish the wicked: is not idle. The Minister if he apply his book, be diligent in prayer, exhort, and teach publicly, and privately: is not idle. These labours are greater, than all the labours of the body.