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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
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.
He hath burnt many Saints of God, and holy men for no other cause, but for the profession of the Gospel. He hath in many places burnt the holy Bible, and such books as teach nothing but godliness. Where did he ever burn? what speak I of burning? where may it appear that ever he controlled any for so writing, or called in such speeches?
He hath burnt many Saints of God, and holie men for no other cause, but for the profession of the Gospell. He hath in manie places burnt the holie Bible, and such bookes as teach nothing but godlinesse. Where did he euer burne? what speake I of burning? where may it appeare that euer he controlled any for so writing, or called in such spéeches?
One of them seemeth to take shame of this shameless, and blasphemous stile or title. He seeketh friendly to temper, and qualify, and take up the matter. Nec deus es nec homo, 1quasi neuter es inter utrumque. Thou art neither God nor man: in a manner thou art neither of both: but rather a mean between both. That is, thou art not so high as God, nor yet so base as man: Whom then shall we imagine him to be? Is he an Archangel, or Angel, or a spirit of the air? God give him grace to see his own vanity: that he may know, he is but a miserable and mortal man: that he may know that a time shall come when his hypocrisy and dissimulation shall be disclosed. GOD give him grace to become godly, as becometh the man of God. ⟨p. 296⟩That he may indeed be the minister of Christ, and a disposer of the secrets of God: that he may serve God in trueth, in holiness and righteousness all the days of his life. But you say, the Pope at this day is not called GOD. He rather abaseth himself, and writeth himself by a title of humility, and is called so, Servus servorum, The servant of servants. Be it so, that he is so called, and so written: yet he is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. 2This servant sayeth, I do make holy the unholy: I do justify the wicked: I do forgive sins: I open, and no man shutteth. This servant can say, whosoever obeyeth not me, he shall be rooted out. This servant may dispense