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PAul / Syfuanus [ A] and Timotheus. Unto the congre¦gacion of the Tessalony∣ans / in God the father / & in y• Lorde Iesus Christ.
Grace be with you / and peace from God oure fa∣ther / and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
We geve God thākes all waye for you all / makinge mension of you in oure prayers with
out ceasynge / and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faythe / and labour in love & per∣severaunce in the hope of oure lorde Iesus [ B] Christ / in the sight of God oure father: becau¦se we knowe brethren beloved of god / how y• ye are electe. For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only / but also in power / and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie / as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure sel¦ves amonge you / for youre sakes.
And ye became folowers of vs and of the lord / and receaved the worde in moche afflic∣cion / with ioye of the holy gost: so that ye we∣re an ensample to all that beleve in Macedo∣nia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the worde of the lorde / not in Macedonia and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Achaia only: but youre fayth also which ye have vnto god / spred hersilfe abroade in all quartars / so greatly that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thynge at all. For they thē selves shewe of you what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you & how ye tourned to God from ymages / for to serve the livynge & true god / & for to loke for his sonne from heven / whom he raysed from deeth: I mean Iesus which delivereth vs from wrath to come.
FOr ye youre selves knowe brethren of oure entraunce in vnto you / howe that [ A] it was not in vayne: but even after that we had suffered before and were shamfully entreated at Phillippos (as ye well knowe) then were we bolde in oure God to speake
vnto you the gospell of God / with moche stri¦vynge. Dure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure / nor yet to vnclennes / nether was it with gyle: but as we were alowed of God / that the gospell shuld be cōmitted vn∣to vs: even so we speake / not as though we en¦tended to please men / but God / which trieth oure hertes. [ B]
Nether was oure conversacion at eny ty∣me wt flatterynge wordes / as ye well knowe nether in cloked coveteousnes / God is recor∣de: nether sought we prayse of men / nether of you / nor yet of eny other / when we myght ha∣ve bene chargeable / as the apostles of Christ but we were tender amonge you / even as a norsse cheressheth her children / so was oure affeccion towarde you / oure good will was to have dealte vnto you / not the gospell of God only: but also oureawne soules / because ye were deare vnto vs.
✚ Ye remember brethrē oure laboure & travay¦le.* 1.1 For we laboured daye & nyght / because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you / & prea¦ched vnto you y• gospell of God. Ye are wit∣nesses / & so is god / how holyly & iustly & vn∣blameable* 1.2 we behaved oure selves amonge you that beleve: as ye knowe how that we ex¦horted and comforted and besought every o∣ne of you / as a father his childrē / that ye wol∣de [ C] walke worthy of God / which hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glory.
For this cause thanke we god with out ce∣asynge / because that when ye receaved of vs
the worde wherwith God was preached / ye receaved it not as the worde of man: but even as it was in dedes the worde of God / which worketh in you that beleve. ✚ For ye brethrē became folowers of the congregacions of god which in Iewry are in Christ Iesu: for ye ha∣ve suffered lyke thynges of youre kynsmen as we oure selves have suffered of the Iewes. [ D] Which as they kylled the lorde Iesus & their awne prophetes / even so have they persecuted vs / and God they please not / & are contrary to all men and forbid vs to preache vnto the gen¦tyls / that they myght besaved / to fulfill their synnes all waye. For the wrath of God is co∣me on them / even to the vtmost.
For as moch brethren as we are kept from you for a season / as concernynge the bodyly presence / but not in the herte / we enforsed the more to se you personally with great desire. And therfore we wolde have come vnto you / I paul once and agayne: but Satan with sto∣de vs. For what is oure hope or ioye / or crou∣ne of reioysynge? are not ye it in the presence of oure lorde Iesus Christ at his cōmynges yes ye are oure glory and ioye.
VVherfore sence we coulde no lenger forbeare / it pleased vs to remayne at* 1.3 Athens alone / and sent Timotheus oure brother and minister of god / and oure la∣boure felowe in the gospell of Christ / to sta∣blysshe you & to cōforte you over youre fayth y• no mā shulde be moved in these afflicciōs.
For ye youre selves knowe that we are even [ B] apoynted therevnto. For verely when I was with you / I tolde you before that we shulde suffre tribulacion / even as it came to passe / & as ye knowe. For this cause / when I coulde no lenger forbeare / I sent / that I myght ha∣ve knowledge of youre fayth / lest haply the tempter had tempted you / and that oure la∣boure had bene bestowed in vayne.
But now lately whē Timotheus came frō you vnto vs / and declared to vs youre fayth & youre love and how that ye have good remem¦braunce of vs all wayes / desyringe to se vs as [ C] we desyre to se you. Therfore brethrē we had consolacion in you / in all oure adversite & ne¦cessite / through youre fayth. For now are we alyve / yf ye stonde stedfast in the lorde. For what thankes can we recompence to god aga¦yne for you / over all the ioye that we ioye for youre sakes before oure god / whyle we / nyght and daye praye excedingly that we myght se you presently / and myght fulfill that wich is lackynge in youre fayth.
God him silfe oure father and oure lorde Iesus Christ gyde oure iorney vnto you: and [ D] the lorde increace you & make you flowe ouer in love one towarde another / and towarde all men / even as we do towarde you / to make you∣re hertes stable and vnblameable / in holy∣nes before God oure father / at the commyn∣ge of oure Lorde Iesus Christ / with all his sainctes.
FUrther more we beseche you brethren / & exhorte you in the lorde Iesus / that ye increace more and more / euen as ye [ A] have receaved of vs / how ye ought to walke & to please god. Ye remember what commaund¦mētes* 1.4 we gave you in oure lorde Iesu Christ. For this is the will of god / even that ye shuld be holy / and that ye shuld abstayne from for∣nicacion / that every one of you shuld knowe how to kepe his nessell in holynes and honou¦re / and not in the lust of concupiscence / as do the hethen which knowe not god / that noman goo to farre and desraude his brother in bar∣gayninge: because the lorde is a venger of all suche thinges as we tolde you before tyme & testified. For god hath not called vs vnto vn¦clennes: but vnto holynes. He therfore that despiseth / despiseth not man / but God / which hath sent his holy sprete amonge you. ✚ [ B]
But as touchynge brotherly love / ye nede* 1.5 not that I wryte vnto you. For ye are taught of God to love on another. Ye and that thin¦ge verely ye do vnto all the brethrē which are thorow oute all Macedonia. We beseche you brethren that ye encreace more & more / & that ye studye to be quyet / and to medle with you∣re* 1.6 awne busynes / and to worke with youre awne hondes / as we commaunded you: that ye maye be have youre selves honestly towar∣de them that are with out / and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you. [ C]
✚ I wolde not brethren have you ignoraūt* 1.7 concerninge them which are fallen a slepe /
that ye sorowe not as other do which have no hope. For yf we beleve that Iesus dyed & rose agayne: even so them also which slepe by Ie∣Iesus / will God brynge agayne with him. And this saye we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde / that we which live and are remay∣ninge in the comminge of the Lorde / shall not come yerre they which slepe. For the Lorde him selfe shall descende frō hevē with a show¦te and the voyce of the archangell and trom∣pe* 1.8 of God. And the deed in Christe shall ary∣se fyrst: then shall we which live and remay∣ne / be caught vp with them also in the clou¦des / to mete the Lorde in ye ayer. And so shall we ever be with the Lorde. Wherfore cōforte youre selves one another with these worde ⊢
OF the tymes and seasons brethren ye [ A] have no nede that I write vnto you: for ye youre selves knowe parfectly / that the daye of the Lorde shall come even as a thefe in the nyght. When they shall saye peace and no daunger / than commeth on the* 1.9 soden destruccion / as the travalynge of a wo∣mā with childe / & they shall not scape. But ye brethrē are not in darcknes / that ye daye shuld come on you as it were a thefe. ✚ Ye are all the childrē of light / & the children of ye daye. We are not of y• nyght nether of darcknes.
Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but [ B] let vs watch and be sober. For they that slepe* 1.10 slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken / are dronken in the nyght. But let vs which
are of the daye / be sober / armed with the brest* 1.11 plate of fayth and love / and with hope of sal∣vaciō as an helmet. For god hath not apoyn∣ted vs vnto wrath: but to obtayne salvacion by ye meanes of oure lorde Iesu Christ which died for vs: that whether we wake or slepe / we shuld lyve togedder with him.
Wherfore comforte youre selves togedder / [ C] and edifie one another / even as ye do. ⊢
We beseche you brethren / that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you & have the oversight of you in the Lorde & geve you ex∣hortacion / that ye have them the more in lo∣ve / for their workes sake / and be at peace with them. ✚ We desyre you brethrē / warne them that are vnruly / comforte the feble mynded / for beare the weake / have continuall pacience towarde all men. Se that none recōpence evill for evyll vnto eny man: but ever folowe that which is good / both amonge youre selves / and to all men. Reioyce ever. Praye cōtinually. In all thing{is} geve thankes. For this is the wyll of God in Christ Iesu towarde you.
Quenche not the * 1.12 sprete. Despise not pro¦phesyinge. Examen all thinges / & kepe that which is good. Abstayne from all suspicious thing{is}. The very God of peace sanctifie you thorow out. And I praye God that youre whole sprete / soulse & body / be kept fautlesse vnto y• cōmynge of oure Lorde Iesus Christ ✚ Faythfull is he which called you: which will also do it. Brethrē / praye for vs. Grete all the* 1.13 brethren with an holy kysse. I charge you in
the Lorde / that this pistle be reed vnto all the holy brethren. The grace of the Lorde Iesus Christ be with you.
A sure to¦ken of a true apo∣stle.
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io. xiij. d and xv. b j. io. ij. b. i. io. iiij. b
A good lesson for monkes & ydle fre¦ers.
Resurrec∣cion.
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esa. lix. c. ••ph. vj. c.
Fayth is the brest plate and hope is y• helmet.
The spi¦rite wher by we be∣leue in ch¦rist and cō¦sentto the lawe / is quenched agayne with euell conuersa∣cion & lew¦de cōmu∣nycacion. Examyn¦all maner of learnin¦ge.
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