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…

You are the children of those fathers, which have fallen from their steadfastness, and have been led into error: beware least you also be carried away with every blast of false •rine. The Devil is subtle, his baits are pleasant, you are weak and simple, he will ⟨p. 249⟩soon deceive you. Here let us consider how easily man may be deceived, that so we mai• know the corruption and weakness of our nature, and therefore what cause we have ever to walk warily, to take heed to our steppes, and to pray unto GOD that he line our hearts unto his testimonies. When I say, man may be deceived: I mean not bays or children, or fools, or the simpler sort of men: but the learned, the wife, the politic: the •ga and Princes of the world: the teachers, and rulers of the people.

YOu are the children of those fathers, which haue fallen from their stedfastnesse, and haue béene led into errour: beware least you also be carried away with euery blast of false •rine. The Diuel is subtile, his baites are pleasaunt, you are weake and simple, he will ⟨p. 249⟩soone deceiue you. Here let vs consider howe easily man maie be deceiued, that so we mai• knowe the corruption and weakenesse of our nature, and therefore what cause we haue euer to walke warily, to take heede to our steppes, and to praie vnto GOD that hee •line our heartes vnto his testimonies. When I saie, man maie be deceiued: I meane not baies or children, or fooles, or the simpler sorte of men: but the learned, the wife, the politike: the •ga and Princes of the worlde: the teachers, and rulers of the people.

When Adam was yet in Paradise, and made the ruler over all the beas of the ld, and was full of the graces and blessings of God, he soon departed from the ecuntll of God, and gave ear to the serpent: so easily was he eceived. Israel was as the apple of the Lords eye, a people whom the Lord loved, and to whom he gave their hearts desire. He delivered them from Pharaoh, and with an outstretched arm led them through the red sea. Who would think so great cies would eer be forgotten? or that such a people, so well instructed in the knowledge of God, and so often put in mind of their duty, should either most part, or all of them turn from GOD? Moses was absent but a while: he went aside