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…

This matter S. Paul reasoneth with the Corinthians, Have we not power to eat and ¹drink? or have we not power to lead about a wife, a sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own cost? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or, who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? I might eat and drink at your charge, and require charges of you for me, and mine. I am the soldier of God. Christ is my captain: I have planted the vine of the Lord of hosts among you, I have fed you, you are the sheep of the house of Israel. The hire due to the soldier: the fruit whereof he should eat which keepeth the vine, and the milk which Christs sheep yield to their feeder, is nothing else but your charitable benevolence towards the servants of Christ. Again, It is written in the law of Moses. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. He travaileth for thee, that thou mayest live. Suffer him to lick a little for his pains. We are the ⟨p. 344⟩Lords oxen, we thresh forth his corn. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things? We are Gods husbandmen, we travail and take pains, we plough, we sow, we harrow, we are abroad in wind and weather, in storm, in hail, in lightning and thunder. No man knoweth the care the poor husbandman taketh. Winter nor Summer, our work is never at an end. Now if we by our labour minister to you the bread which cometh from heaven, is it much that you give us the bread of the earth? Do you not know that they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? It hath so seemed good unto GOD, it is his appointment, he hath established it by his law, and it is most agreeable to the law of reason, and nature.

This matter S. Paule reasoneth with the Corinthians, Haue wee not power to eate and ¹drinke? or haue we not power to leade about a wife, a sister, as wel as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lorde and Cephas? Who goeth a warfare at anie time at his owne cost? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruite thereof? or, who feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke? I might eate and drincke at your charge, and require charges of you for me, and mine. I am the souldior of God. Christ is my captaine: I haue planted the vine of the Lord of hosts among you, I haue fed you, you are the shéepe of the house of Israel. The hire due to the souldiour: the fruit wherof he should eate which kéepeth the vine, and the milke which Christs shéepe yéeld to their féeder, is nothing else but your charitable beneuolence towards the seruants of Christ. Againe, It is written in the law of Moses. Thou shalt not muzle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. He tranaileth for thée, that thou maiest liue. Suffer him to licke a little for his paines. We are the