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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.
With joy of the holy ghost. This is that which passeth all natural sense and wisdom. Many seem to take in good part, and abide patiently afflictions, loss of goods, imprisonment and loss of life. But no man can rejoice in the suffering of these things, but the child of god: no man but whom Christ hath chosen out of the world: but whose name is written in the book of life, but he, in whom the spirit beareth witness with ⟨p. 24⟩his spirit that he is the child of God. He knoweth that through many tribulations he must enter into rest. He knoweth, the wicked could have no power over him, unless it were given them from above: he knoweth that all is done for the best to them that love God: and that God could dispose means, if it were so • dient, to bring to naught all the devises of the ungodly.
With ioy of the holie ghost. This is that which passeth al naturall sense and wisedome. Manie séeme to take in good part, and abide patiently afflictions, losse of goods, imprisonment and losse of life. But no man can reioice in the suffring of these things, but the child of god: no man but whō Christ hath chosē out of ye world: but whose name is written in the booke of life, but he, in whom ye spirit beareth witnes with ⟨p. 24⟩his spirit that he is the child of God. He knoweth that through manie tribulations he must enter intorest. He knoweth, the wicked could haue no power ouer him, •nlesse it were giuen them from aboue: he knoweth that al is done for the best to them that loue God: and that God could dispose meanes, if it were so • dient, to bring to naught all the deuises of the vngodlie.
When the •ernantes of God were rast into the hot burning furnace, because they would not worship the golden Image, that the •ing Nebuchadnezzar had set up: who would have thought, that the fire could not burn. D that their bodies should not have been consumed yet did God in the middest of the fire prefer them so, that not one hair of their head was