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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.
God hath set you in a race. Let no man hinder you, let no man keep you from the goal. Stand past and keep that doctrine which you ⟨p. 388⟩have […] I was present with you, I taught you by […] of mouth: when I was away from you. I taught you by letters. I am careful for you. I bear you in my heart: and love you […] Christ Jesus. He hath given me charge ever you, he will require you at my hands. I have cleansed and garnished your hearts by the word of trueth: take heed, take heed the wicked spirit come not, and bring sea• spirits worse than himself, and enter in, and •el with you, and the end of you be worse than the beginning.
God hath set you in a race. Let no man hinder you, let no man kéepe you from the goale. Stand past and kéepe that doctrine which you ⟨p. 388⟩haue 〈…〉 I was present with you, I taught you by 〈…〉 of mouth: when I was away from you. I taught you by letters. I am carefull for you. I beare you in my heart: and loue you 〈…〉 Christ Jesus. Hée hath giuen me charge euer you, hee will require you at my handes. I haue clensed and garnished your hearts by the word of trueth: take héede, take héede the wicked spirit come not, and bring sea• spirites worse than himselfe, and enter in, and •el with you, and the end of you be worse than the beginning.
Remember Lots wife, she went not forth straight into the may appointed her, but looked back behind her, and she became a pillar of salt: and so continueth until this day. A terrible example to those, which have set their hand to the plough, and look back again, and have made themselves unworthy the kingdom of heaven. God will forsake such, and make their hearts hard as a stone. You are the ome of the Lords field, God hath blessed you, grow then and be fruitful until the harvest, that you may be gathered, into the Lords barn. You are the light of God, which God himself hath kindled: let no puff of wind put you out. You are the house of God, God hath built you upon a rock: let no violence, nor tempestuous-weather beat you down.