The Works of John Jewel, D.D. Bishop of Salisbury, Vol. 7 of 8 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Works of John Jewel, D.D. Bishop of Salisbury, Vol. 7 of 8

But the Thessalonians, after they had heard the glad tidings of the gospel, they received it greedily, and laid it up close and safe in their hearts. Albeit the Jews withstood them, and vexed them sore albeit false brethren used divers secret means to draw them from the love of the truth; yet they kept still their steadfastness; and could not be driven from their faith, neither by cruelty of persecution, nor by subtilty of crafty persuasion. Paul being at Athens, a place far distant from thence, sendeth Timothy to know in What case they stood. So careful was he for that house Which he had built for the fire which he had kindled; for the grafts which he had planted and for the children which he begot among them. When Timothy made report of their constancy, that they continued steadfast in those things which they had learned, he writeth this Epistle to commend them, and to exhort them to abide steadfast in their faith: that they be come not like the foolish Israelites, which longed after the flesh pots of Egypt, and were unmindful of their deliverance from bondage under Pharaoh: that they return not like filthy dogs to their vomit, and like unclean swine to their puddles of mire: that they look not back again after they have put their hands to the Lord's plough, and so make themselves unworthy the kingdom of God.

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