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THE FOVRTH LEC∣TVRE VPON THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAVL TO THE THESSALONIANS.
1 NOW vve beseech you, brethren, by the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, and by our assembling vnto him,
2 That ye be not suddenly mooued from your mynde, nor troubled neithr by spirit, nor by vvord, nor by letter, as it were from vs, a•• though the day of Christ vvere at hand.
3 Let no man deceiue you by any meanes:
IN the chapter preceding ye haue heard, brethren, first of the saluation of the A∣postle, wherein he wishes to the Thessa∣lonians grace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ. Then we came to his preface, wherein he rejoices and giues thanks to God, for the increase of grace, of faith, of loue they had recei∣ued. And thirdly, we came to that consolation, that he ministers to them against the affliction and trouble vnder the which they lay for the faith of Christ. Now to come to this chapter. In it the Apostle first admonishes the Thessalonians that they giue not eare to deceiuers and false teachers, who would perswade them that the comming of the Lord Iesus was at hand, and thereafter ••e enters in a refutation of this pointe of false doctrine and he∣resie. Now to make this more plaine. The occasion (as it ap∣peares) of that▪ which the Apostle wrytes in this chapter is this,