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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 3
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.
We warned you, saith the Apostle, that if any would not work, the same should not eat• ⟨p. 410⟩This is a hard saying: yet saith Paul I my self have kept it. I have fulfilled it in mine own body. He doth not say, if any be sick or weak, or impotent, and can not work, but if any be idle, and froward, and will not work: to such a one give not to eat: that so he may see the danger of idleness, and work with his hands the thing which is good, 1that he may have to give him that needeth. It is not lawful to give them the bread of the Church, and the alms ordained for relief of the poor. This bread they may not eat.
We warned you, saith the Apostle, that if anie would not work, the same should not eat• ⟨p. 410⟩This is a hard saying: yet saith Paule I my selfe haue kept it. I haue fulfilled it in mine owne bodie. He doth not saie, if any be sicke or weake, or impotent, and can not worke, but if anie be idle, and froward, and will not worke: to such a one giue not to eate: that so he maie sée the daunger of idlenesse, and worke with his handes the thing which is good, 1that he maie haue to giue him that needeth. It is not lawfull to giue them the breade of the Church, and the almes ordained for reliefe of the poore. This bread they maie not eate.
- 1Ephe. 4.
But you will say, Kings and Counsellors, Bishops, Preachers, and all other sorts of learned men neither plough, nor sow, nor hedge, nor ditch, nor use such painful labour of the body: they sit at rest and live idly. They that so think are deceived. The toil which princes take, and the great cares wherewith they are occupied, pass all other cares in the world. Saint Paul calleth the office of a Bishop,