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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
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.
As ye know after what manner we were among you for your sakes. You know how I behaved my self, & after what manner I have lived among you. You know my first coming ⟨p. 20⟩and entry unto you. You know what doctrine I have taught, and what hath been my conversation of life. I never deceived any, nor offered wrong unto the simplest. I sought not you, nor yours, but those things which are Jesus. I have lived by the labour of my hands, in watchings, in hunger, in cold, and nakedness. God hath ordained, that they which teach the gospel, should live by the gospel. Who seedeth a •lacke and eateth not of the milk of the flock? But I have not used this liberty. For I have a great care least by any means I should offend you. Yet would I never flatter any in that thing they had done amiss: I never spared to rebuke ill. If I should fear, or seek to please men, I were not the servant of Christ. I seek not mine own glory, but the glory of him that sent me, who also hath made me a minister of his gospel. I have forsaken all things, my goods and life, my flesh and my body: and am daily in perils, compassed daily by persecution, & see death death daily before mine eyes, for the love. I be are to you, and for the care I have of the Church. You are the Lords sheep, I am your shepherd: you are the house of God, I am your builder: you are Gods orchard, I am your overseer and workman. I shall give an attempt for your souls. You know how •ly I have. loved you in th• ⟨p. 21⟩Lord. Your grief hath been my grief, your joy hath been my joy. I have prayed for you day and night, and have given thanks to God for you, and rejoiced in your behalf. What is more dear to a man than life: yet have I desired to yield up my life, that you might live. I have been ready to suffer death, if thereby I might do you good. These things you cannot but remember, your conscience beareth me witness, that I have thus lived among you for your sake.
As ye knowe after what maner wee were among you for your sakes. You knowe howe I behaued my selfe, & after what maner I haue liued among you. You knowe my first comming ⟨p. 20⟩