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…

As it was in the days of Lot and as it befell to Sodom, and Gomorrah: they lived and increased in filthiness. Their hearts were blind and regarded no counsel. Their bodies were filthy: their souls, their lives, their houses & cities were full of filthiness. The Angel of God departed from them, Loth went out from among them: and fire came down ⟨p. 172⟩from heaven and consumed them to ashes, and carried them down quick into hell. There was no father left to lament his child, no child left to lament his father. So shall it be at the coming of Christ. He shall come as a thief, suddenly, when no man looketh for his coming: he shall come at such season, when mens harts will be asleep, and think not of him.

As it was in the daies of Lot and as it betel to Sodome, and Gomortha: they liued and increased in filthinesse. Their heartes were blind and regarded no counsel. Their bodies were filthie: their soules, their liues, their houses & cities were ful of filthinesse. The Angel of God departed from them, Loth went out from among them: and fire came downe ⟨p. 172⟩from heauen and consumed them to ashes, and caried them downe quick into hel. There was no father left to lament his child, no child left to lament his father. So shal it be at the comming of Christ. He shal come as a théefe, sodenly, when no man looketh for his comming: he shal come at such season, when mens harts wil be asléepe, and thinke not of him.

S. Peter sayeth, There shall come in the last ¹days, mockers, which will walk after their lusts, and say, where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers dyed, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation. They scorn the threatenings of Gods judgement. When shall the world come to an end? We have winter and summer, rain, snow, day and night as before. The sun keepeth his course: the floods run: the fr• bear fruit: all things are as they have been. O, saith Peter, know this, that god hath made the heaven and earth, and all the furniture in them. They are his creatures: he doth hold them up, and preserve them by the power of his word. When God shall withdraw his word, they shall decay, and have an end. As for our Lord, he shall come, and not tarry: at his coming heaven shall depart away as a scroll that is rolled, the element shall melt with heat, and the earth with the works that are therein, shall