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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.
As our GOD is of power, to divide the waters, to make the sea stand like a wall, and give passage to his people: as he can change the course of the heavens, and make the sun go back, as he can draw water out of the hard rocks: so is he of power to raise our dead bodies again unto life. If he made the earth, the water, the air, the heavens, and all creatures in them of nothing: he is much more able to restore again those bodies which have been. We look sayeth Paul, 1for the saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, and make it like his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. The Prophet Isaiah comforteth the people of GOD in their afflictions: Thy dead men shall live: even with my body shall 2they rise: awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Again, The earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more hide her slain. Therefore ⟨p. 168⟩saith our saviour, This is the fathers will, 3which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should loose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. Again he saith, The hour shall come, in the which 4all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. And they shall come forth that have done good, unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil unto the resurrection of condemnation. And again, I am the resurrection 5and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead shall live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
As our GOD is of power, to diuide the waters, to make the sea stand like a wall, and giue passage to his people: as he can chaunge the course of the heauens, and make the sunne goe backe, as he can drawe water out of the harde rockes: so is he of power to raise our dead bodies againe vnto life. If he made the earth, the water, the aire, the heauens, and all creatures in them of nothing: he is much more able to restore againe those bodies which haue beene. Wee looke saieth Paule,