This pystle dyd Paul wryte of
exceadynge loue and care: and
prayseth them in the .ij. fyrst
Chapters / because they dyd receaue
the gospell ernestly / and
had in tribulacion and persecucion
continued therin stedfastlye
/ and were become an ensample
vnto all congregacions / and had therto soffred
of their awne kynsmen as Christ and his
Apostles dyd of the Iewes / puttinge them therto
in mynde / how purelye and godlye he had lyued
amonge them to their ensample / ∧ thanketh
God that his gospell had brought forth soche
frute amonge them.
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In the thyrde Chapter / he sheweth his dilig&ebar;ce
and care / least his so great laboure and their
so blessed a begynnynge shuld haue been in
vayne / Satan and his Apostles vexinge them
with persecucion / and destroyenge their fayth
with m&ebar;nes doctryne. And therfore he sent Timothe
to them to comforte them and strength
them in the fayth / and thanketh God that they
had so constantly endured / and desyred God to
encrease them.
In the fourth he exhorteth them to kepe
them selues from synne / and to do good one to
another. And therto he informeth them concerninge
the resurreccion.
In the fyueth he wryteth of the last daye /
that it shuld come sodenlye / exhortinge to prepare
them selues therafter and to kepe a good
order concerninge obedience and rule.
¶ The fyrst epistle of S. Paul vnto the Tessalonyans.
Tyndale [1534], ¶ The newe Testament / dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A. M. D. ∧. xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember (, ANWERP) [word count] [B03000].
