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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
¶ The Second Epistle of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Thessalonians. › Chapter 1
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.
Unto the Church of the Thessalonians, ⟨p. 234⟩which is in God our father &c. You are (saith he) the beloved of God, you are his people, and he hath assured his mercy unto you: you have the promise, and the earnest of the life to come. Here let us mark the state of that country, as it was then, and compare it with it self as it is now. Then it was the church of God: for otherwise S. Paul would not so have called it, according to the grace of God given unto him he laid the foundation, he planted and watered their hearts, and God gave the increase. So that they received the word in much action: and the word of the Gospel sounded from them not only in Macedonia, & Achaia, but their faith towards God was spread also abroad in all quarters. In such sort were they a Vessel sanctified unto honour, full of blessing, and full of the mercy, and grace of God.
Vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, ⟨p. 234⟩which is in God our father &c. You are (sayth he) the beloued of God, you are his people, and he hath assured his mercie vnto you: you haue the promise, and the earnest of the life to come. Here let vs marke the state of that countrie, as it was then, and compare it with it selfe as it is now. Then it was the church of God: for otherwise S. Paule would not so haue called it, according to the grace of God giuen vnto him he layde the foundation, he planted and watred their hearts, and God gaue the increase. So that they receiued the worde in much a•tion: and the worde of the Gospel sounded from them not only in Macedonia, & Achaia, but their faith towardes God was spread also abroade in al quarters. In such sort were they a Vessel sanoified vnto honour, ful of blessing, and ful of the mercie, and grace of God.
But what is become of that country? In what case standeth the church of Thessalonica at this day? It is now the Synagogue of Satan, under the tyranny of the Turk, and such as are enemies of the cross of Christ. Such a change hath the right hand of the Lord wrought in that place, which hath sometimes been his holy Tabernacle. I thought good to mark this, that we might understand how vain a thing it is, to put confidence in cities