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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.
In the law of Moses God commanded 1the children of Israel to put out of the host every leper, that they should neither eat, nor drink, nor walk abroad, nor come to church, nor offer sacrifice, nor make their prayers with the people. Such one, whithersoever he went, hid his face, rent his clothes, gave warning to avoid his company, and to fly from him, because he was foul and filthy. His hands were filthy, & made the water unclean: his breath was corrupt, and infected the air. So miserable was his case. This was a kind of excommunication: in such sort were the filthy divided from the clean.
In the lawe of Moses God commaunded 1the children of Israel to put out of the host euerie leaper, that they should neither eate, nor drinke, nor walke abroad, nor come to church, nor offer sacrifice, nor make their prayers with the people. Such one, whithersoeuer he went, hid his face, rent his clothes, gaue warning to auoide his companie, and to flie from him, because he was foule and filthy. His hands were filthy, & made the water vncleane: his breath was corrupt, and infected the ayre. So miserable was his case. This was a kinde of excommunication: in such sort were the filthie diuided from the cleane.
- 1Num. 5.
God also set down this ordinance 1to Abraham, that every uncircumcised man child, should be cut off from his people, because he hath broken the covenant. This ordinance of excommunication God hath appointed against Idolaters, against fornicators, and crafty deceivers, and other such like offenders in the seven and twentieth of Deuteronomy, Cursed be the man that shall make any carved or molten Image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. Cursed be he, that