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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.
Therefore, saith Paul you may mourn, as did the holy men of GOD: but in such sort as the unfaithful sorrow for their dead, you may not mourn. You are the sons of the holy fathers: fashion not your selves therefore like to the heathens, do not as ⟨p. 162⟩they did, neither in feasts, nor in marriages, nor in your attire, nor in your mourning, nor in your pastimes. But behave your selves as becometh the children of the most highest.
Therefore, saith Paul you may mourne, as did the holie men of GOD: but in such sorte as the vnfaithfull sorrowe for their dead, you maie not mourne. You are the sonnes of the holie fathers: fashion not your selues therefore like to the heathens, do not as ⟨p. 162⟩they did, neither in feastes, nor in marriages, nor in your attire, nor in your mourning, nor in your pastimes. But behaue your selues as becommeth the children of the most highest.
But why may not Christians mourn, and continue in heaviness? because it is no new thing, for a man to die: because he goeth the way of all flesh. Again, they that depart this life, are not dead, they are not gone for ever, as the heathen imagined. They are laid down to take rest quietly for a time. The death of a godly man is nothing else, but a sleep. So saith our saviour of Lazarus, Our friend 1Lazarus sleepeth: howbeit Jesus spake of his death. So it is said of Steven. And they stoned 2Steven, who called on God, and said, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sin to their charge, and when he had thus spoken, he slept. Whosoever dieth in the peace of conscience, he may say, I will lie down and take my rest. Thus doeth the man of God repose himself. For Christ is unto him both in life, and in death advantage. He saith with the Apostle, Whether we