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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 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.
Antichrist shal appeare, not when he wil: but he shalbe reuealed in his time. His time is the time of darkenesse: when shepheardes and the guides of the people shal be carelesse: when the word shal be loathed: when the light shall be put out: when superstition shal reigne: when ignorance shal haue the vpper hand: when the creature shal not be knowen from the creator: when there shal be no feare of God, no regard of godlinesse: when the people shal not knowe neither wherefore they pray, nor whom they worship, nor in whom they beleeue: then shal it appeare that Antichrist is come, then he shal shewe himselfe: this is his time.
V. 7. For the mystery of iniquity doeth already work, only he which now letteth, shall let till he be taken out of the way.
V. 7. For the mysterie of iniquitie doeth alreadie worke, onely he which nowe letteth, shal let til he be taken out of the way.
The mystery of iniquity doeth already work. Let us not be deceived. Antichrist shall certainly come, and shall draw many into error. As it was with Christ, at his coming, he was in the world, he did the works of his father, yet few knew him: So shall it be with Antichrist, he shall be in the world, he shall work his iniquity, and few shall know him. Paul lived more than fifteen hundred years past. Yet then he said the mystery of the iniquity