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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
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but he is a Jew which is one within, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. Of those which are such ⟨p. 8⟩Leo saith, Ecclesiae nomine armamini, & contra Ecclesiam dimicatis Ye arm your selves with 1the name of the Church and yet ye fight against the Church. And Chrysostom saith, The name only of Christ, doth not make a Christian, but 2he must also have the trueth of Christ: for there are many which walk in the name of Christ, but few which walk in his truth. It is therefore manifest, as Lyra saith, That the Church 3is not among men, by reason of any Ecclesiastical or secular authority or dignity: because many princes and high priests, and others of the inferior sort have forsaken the faith. Though they pretend show of holiness, though they draw to themselves credit by long continuance, though their numbers be great, and they consent together: yet if they have forsaken the faith, if they hold not the truth of Christ, if they fight against and persecute the Church, if their circumcision be not the circumcision of the heart, and in the spirit, if they hear not the voice of the shepherd, if they love not Christ Jesus the Son of God, and set not forth his glory, if they seek to stop the course of the gospel, if they seek to get name among men, if they resist Moses and Aaron: they have only a painted visard, and carry only an empty name of the Church: they call themselves so, and are not.
but hee is a Iew which is one within, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. Of those which are such ⟨p. 8⟩Leo saith, Ecclesiae nomine armamini, & contra Ecclesiam dimicatis Yee arme your selues with 1the name of the Church and yet ye fight against the Church. And Chrysostome saith, The name onely of Christ, doth not make a Christian, but