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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.
Who would think there were any evil in single communion? D• why may not every body follow his own devotion, and receive the ⟨p. 312⟩sacrament when he will? what harm is herein? It may seem to be done for the reverence unto the sacrament, least it should grow in contempt, if it were used often. These reasons are fair and fresh, but this is a mystery, and a practise of Antichrist. For, by this means have they shut out the faithful people of God, and made them negligent & careless for the receiving of the Lords supper: they abused the Church of the living God, they turned the remembrance of the death of Christ into a Maigame: they made the people commit horrible and open idolatry, to worship the creature in stead of the Creator, which is God blessed for ever.
Who would thinke there were any euil in single communisn? D• why maie not euerie bodie folow his own deuotion, and receiue the ⟨p. 312⟩sacrament when he wil? what harme is herein? It may séeme to be done for the reuerence vnto the sacrament, least it shoulde growe in contempt, if it were vsed often. These reasons are faire and fresh, but this is a mysterie, and a practise of Antichrist. For, by this meanes haue they shut out the faithfull people of God, and made them negligent & carlesse for the receiuing of the Lords supper: they abused the Church of the liuing God, they turned the remembrance of the death of Christ into a Maigame: they made the people commit horrible and open idolatrie, to worship the creature in stead of the Creator, which is God blessed for euer.
Who would think there were any evil in the keys of the Church? They are the expounding of the law, and the disclosing of the will of God. They are the chiefest comfort of our conscience. But Antichrist shall take those keys unto himself, and shall build up his own kingdom with them. He shall shut, that God hath opened: and shall open that God hath shut. This is also the mystery of iniquity.