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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.
Before I departed from you to go farther, to plant the Gospel in other churches, I told you that Antichrist should come, and that he should oppress and confound the Church of Christ. Paul was chosen to be an Apostle. The office of an Apostle was not to rest in any one certain place, but to pass from country to country, from land to land, and to fill all the world with knowledge of the Gospel, and therein appeareth the difference between an Apostle and a Bishop. A Bishop had the charge of one certain Church, an Apostle had the charge over all the churches.
Before I departed from you to goe farther, to plant the Gospel in other churches, I tolde you that Antichrist should come, and that hee should oppresse and confounde the Church of Christ. Paule was chosen to be an Apostle. The office of an Apostle was not to rest in any one certaine place, but to passe from countrey to countrey, from lande to lande, and to fil al the world with knowledge of the Gospel, and therein appeareth the difference betwéene an Apostle and a Bishop. A Bishop had the charge of one certaine Church, an Apostle had the charge ouer al the churches.
But Paul was not tied to any one city, or Island, or country. He had authority to preach to all cities and countries: to all lands and Islands from the east to the west. So did Christ appoint his Apostles: Go ye into all 1the world, and preach the Gospel unto every creature. They were not sent to Jerusalem, nor to Samaria, nor to Ephesus, nor to Rome only: but into all the world. The whole world was their diocese, and their province. So speaketh the Prophet David of them: Their sound is gone forth through the earth: and 2their words into the ends of the world. This was the commission which our Saviour gave unto John, and to James, to Paul, ⟨p. 299⟩and to Peter, and to the rest of the Apostles: that they should go into all the world. Therefore if any of the Apostles should have staid in one only place, and have gone no farther, he had offended, and done otherwise than Christ commanded.