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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
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But blessed be the name of our God, which is the God of truth, and the God of lights: his tyranny and treachery is now revealed, and therefore not regarded. Oh what mountains of money made he sometimes of pardons? His pardons were reputed the only safety, & comfort of mens souls. He was not reckoned a christian whosoever sought them not. No man might lack them neither in his life, nor after his death. But where are they now? what is become of them? who buyeth them? who regardeth the having of them? who reposeth his trust in the• children make sport of them, and play with them in the streets. They see the filth of them, and the folly, and abhor them. Howe cometh this so to pass? The man of sin is revealed.
But blessed be the name of our God, which is the God of truth, and the God of lights: his tyrannie and trecherie is nowe reuealed, and therefore not regarded. Oh what mountaines of money made he sometimes of pardons? His pardons were reputed the only safetie, & comfort of mens soules. He was not reckoned a christian whosoeuer sought them not. No man might lacke them neither in his life, nor after his death. But where are they nowe? what is become of them? who buieth thē? who regardeth the hauing of thē? who reposeth his trust in the• children make sport of them, and play with them in the stréetes. They sée the filth of them, and the sollie, and abhorre them. Howe commeth this so to passe? The man of sinne is reuealed.
What a kingdom made he of purgatory? he shut out thence whom he listed: and released such as were there at his pleasure. He claimed power over the quick & dead: he sold the years, the days, and the months by round reckoning, a hundred, five hundred, and a thousand, and thousand thousands years of pardon. Of which folly his own Canonists were ashamed. One of them saith, Nā quod dicitur Petro, 1tibi dab• claves, &c. Touching that Christ ⟨p. 338⟩