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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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And shall abolish with the brightness of his coming. The Lord shall come, and shall make his enemies his footstool. Then the sun shall be black as a sackcloth, & the moon shall be like blood. There shall be an earthquake: Kings, & great men, and rich men, and every bond man and free man shall hide themselves in dens: they shall say to the hills, and mountains, and rocks, fall upon us & hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. Then shall Antichrist be quite overthrown. Then his kingdom shall be utterly abolished and have an end. Then it shall appear, who hath sought the glory of Christ, who hath followed the doctrine of the gospel, and who hath done the true endeavour of a faithful shepherd, then it shall appear who is the wolf who scattereth & spoileth the flock. S. Hierome. saith Circumdabit •um calix dextere 1domini, &c. The cup of the Lords right ⟨p. 366⟩hand (which is the Lord and saviour) shall compass him about, when he shall stay him with the breath of his mouth, and shall destroy him with the brightness of his coming. Then all the ignominy and shame which he hath heaped up upon himself with thoughts, deeds, and words, shall fall upon his glory and pomp: in so much that he shall be afterward as vile and contemned of all men: as he was before reputed or highly esteemed of them.
And shal abolish with the brightnesse of his comming. The Lord shal come, and shal make his enemies his footstoole. Then the sunne shal be black as a sackcloth, & the moone shal be like blood. There shal be an earthquake: Kinges, & great men, and rich men, and euery bond man and frée man shal hide themselues in dennes: they shal say to the hils, and mountaines, and rockes, fal vpon vs & hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lambe. Then shal Antichrist be quite ouerthrowen. Then his kingdome shal be vtterly abolished and haue an end. Then it shal appeare, who hath sought the glorie of Christ, who hath followed the doctrine of the gospel, and who hath done the true endeuor of a faithful shepheard, thē it shal appeare who is the woolfe who scattereth & spoileth the flocke. S. Hierome. sayth Circumdabit •um calix dextere 1