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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.
For you your selves know, brethren, that our entrance unto you was not in vain.
FOr you your selues know, brethren, that our entrance vnto you was not in vaine.
HE taketh witness of them, of his diligence and pains taken in the fulfilling of his ministry: seeing it hath so good success among them, that they by the preaching of the gospel have forsaken superstition, and are turned unto, and do now serve the true and living God, and do believe for givenes of their sins, and deliverance from the wrath to come by Jesus Christ.
HE taketh witnesse of them, of his diligence and paines taken in the fulfilling of his ministery: séeing it hath so good successe among them, that they by the preaching of the gospell haue forsaken superstition, and are turned vnto, and do now serue the true and liuing God, and do b•leeue for giuenes of their sinnes, and deliuerance from the wrath to come by Jesus Christ.
It is a great and deadly smart to the faithful servant of God, to see the people wilful, and to despise the word of their salvation. Hereof Isaiah complaineth, I have spread out 1my hands all the day long to a rebellious people, which walked in a way that was not good, even after their own imaginations. They stopped their ears, and would not hear, nor be reclaimed, nor return that they might be saved. And Jeremiah, O that my head 2were full of water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the stain of the daughter of my people, ⟨p. 36⟩