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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.
Antichrist shall bring the world into bondage: he shall do violence to the saints of God: he shall be as a continual storm, and darkness in the church. The godly shall look up to heaven, and call for aid: they shall cry unto the Lord, and he will hear them. They shall say, O come Lord Jesus, thy kingdom come, confound thine enemies. Then will he not stay: he will appear, and she we himself in glory. In the mean while this is the cause of his stay, this letteth his coming: Antichrist must first come. This I take to be the Apostles meaning. It agreeth with the beginning. ⟨p. 302⟩It is simple, clear, and plain, and without danger of error.
Antichrist shal bring the worlde into bondage: he shal do violence to the saints of God: he shal be as a continual storme, and darkenesse in the church. The godly shal looke vp to heauen, and cal for ayde: they shal crie vnto the Lorde, and he wil heare them. They shal say, O come Lord Iesus, thy kingdome come, confounde thine enemies. Then wil hee not staie: he wil appeare, and she we himselfe in glorie. In the meane while this is the cause of his stay, this letteth his comming: Antichrist must first come. This I take to be the Apostles meaning. It agréeth with the beginning. ⟨p. 302⟩It is simple, cleare, and plaine, and without danger of errour.
Antichrist shall appear, not when he will: but he shall be revealed in his time. His time is the time of darkness: when shepherds and the guides of the people shall be careless: when the word shall be loathed: when the light shall be put out: when superstition shall reign: when ignorance shall have the upper hand: when the creature shall not be known from the creator: when there shall be no fear of God, no regard of godliness: when the people shall not know neither wherefore they pray, nor whom they worship, nor in whom they believe: then shall it appear that Antichrist is come, then he shall show himself: this is his time.