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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 2
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When the Phili•ines oppressed them, GOD sent them Gideon, Barak, Jehu, Debora, and Sampson, whom he endued with wisdom, and courage, and power to overcome their enemies, and to set them at liberty. What should I speak of Nebuchadnezzar, An•ochus, Nero, Julian, and other tyrants? They oppressed the servants of GOD, and kept them in great misery. But God looked down from heaven, and was their helper in the time of need: he brake the •ords asunder, and delivered them. The more •ie was extended or practised against them, the more glorious did GOD shei• himself, in the […] ⟨p. 263⟩of Antichrist. By him the Church of God shall suffer great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world. And then shall his fury increase, and his tyranny be the greater, when his kingdom shall decay, and the days of his desolation shall be at hand. Primasius saith, Tunc cadet Babylon, quando novis sime potesta•em 1persequendi sanctos acceperit. Then shall Babylon come to the ground, when she shall last of all take power to persecute the Saints of God. For then will God arise, and will judge his own cause, he will deliver the afflicted, and will slay Antichrist with the breath of his mouth. Hereof S. Gregory saith thus, The 2Church after these days of her affliction, shall afterward notwithstanding be •rengihned with great power and might of preaching.
When the Phili•ines oppressed them, GOD sent them Gedeon, Barac, Iehu, Debora, and Sampson, whom he endued with wisedome, and courage, and p•wer to ouercome their enimies, and to sette them at libertie. What should I speake of Nabuchodonosor, An•ochus, Nero, Iulian, and other tyrants? They oppr•ssed the seruants of GOD, and kept them in great miserie. But God looked downe from heauen, and was their helper in the time of néede: he brake the ords asunder, and delinered them. The more ie was extended or practised against them, the more glorious did GOD shei himselfe, in the