The seconde Epistle of S. Paul to the Tessalonyans.The Prologe to the seconde epistle of S. Paul to the Tessalonyans.
Because in the fore pistle he had sayde that the last daye shuld come sodenly / the Thessalonians thought that it shuld haue come shortlye. Wherfore in this epistle he declareth him selfe.
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forteth them with the euerlastinge rewarde of their fayth & pacyence in sofferinge for the gospell / & with the punyshement of their persecutours in euerlastinge payne.
In the seconde he sheweth that the last daye shuld not come / tyll there were fyrst a departinge (as some men thynke) from vnder the obedyence of the Emperour of Rome / and that Antichrist shuld set vp him selfe in the same place / as God: and deceaue the vnthankfull worlde with false doctrine / and with false & lyenge myracles wrought by the workinge of Satan / vntill Christ shuld come & flee him with his glorious commynge and spirituall preachinge of the worde of God.
In the thyrde he geueth them exhortacion & warneth th
to rebuke the ydle that wolde not laboure with their handes / and auoyde their c
panie / yf they wolde not mende.
The seconde Epistle of S. Paul to the Tessalonyans.The fyrst Chapter.
Paul / Syluanus and Timotheus.
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Vnto the congregacion of the Tessalonyans which are in God oure father / and in the Lorde Iesus Christ.
Grace be with you and peace from God oure father / & from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
We are bounde to thanke God all wayes for you brethren / as it is mete / because that youre fayth groweth excedyngly /
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and every one of you swymmeth in love towarde another betwene youre selves / so þ
t we oureselves reioyce of you in the congregacions of God over youre pacience and fayth in all youre persecucions & tribulaci

s that ye suffre / which is a token
1.B of þ
e ryghtewes iudgem

t of god that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdom of god / for which ye also suffre. It is verely a rightewes thinge with God to rec

pence tribulacion to them that trouble you: and to you which are troubled /
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rest with vs / when the lorde Iesus shall shewe him silfe from heven with his myghty angels / in flammynge fyre / rendrynge vengeaunce vnto them that knowe not God / and to them that obeye not vnto the gospell of oure Lorde Iesus Christ / which
shalbe punysshed with everlastynge damnacion / from the presence of the lorde / and from the glory of his power / when he shall come to be glorified in his sainct[es] / & to be made marvelous in all them that beleve: because oure testimonye that we had vnto you / was beleved ev

the same daye that we preached it.
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Wherfore we praye all wayes for you that oure god make you worthy of the callynge / and fulfill all delectacion of goodnes and the worke of fayth / with power: that the name of oure lorde Iesus Christ maye be gloryfied in you / and ye in him / thorowe the grace of oure God / and of the lorde Iesus Christ.
The .ii. Chapter.
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UVe beseche you brethren by the commynge of oure lorde Iesu Christ / & in that we shall assemble vnto him / that ye be not sod

ly moved from youre mynde / and be not troubled / nether by sprete / nether by wordes / nor yet by letter which shuld seme to come from vs / as though the daye of Christ were at honde. Let no m

deceave you by eny meanes /
2.A for the lorde commeth not / excepte ther come a departynge fyrst / and that that synfnll man be opened / þ
e sonne of perdicion which is an adversarie /
3.A & is exalted above all that is called god / or that is worshipped: so that he shall sitt as God in temple of god / and shew him silfe as god.
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Remember ye not / that when I was yet with you / I tolde you these thynges? And nowe
ye knowe what with holdeth: even that he myght be vttered at his tyme. For the mistery of that iniquitie doeth he all readie worke which onlie loketh / vntill it be taken out of þ
e waye. And then shall that wicked be vttered / whom the lorde shall consume with the sprete
4.B of hys mouth / and shall destroye with the apearaunce of his commynge /

even him whose commynge is by the workynge of Satan /
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wyth all
5.C lyinge power / signes and wonders: and in all deceavablenes of vnrightewesnes / amonge them that perysshe: because they receaved not the (love) of the truth / that they myght have bene saved.
6.CAnd therfore god shall sende them stronge delusion / that they shuld beleve lyes: that all they myght be damned which beleved not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrightewesnes.
But we are bounde to geve thankes alwaye to god for you brethren beloved of the lorde / for because that God hath from the begynnynge chosen you to saluacion / thorow sanctifyinge of the sprete / and thorowe belevynge the trueth: whervnto he called you byoure gospell / to obtayne þe glorye that c
meth of oure lord Iesu Christ.
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Therfore brethren stonde fast and kepe þ
e ordinaunces which ye have learned: whether it were by oure preachynge / or by pistle. Oure lorde Iesu Christ hym silfe / and God oure father which hath loved vs and hath geven vs everlastynge consolacion and good
hope thorowe grace / comforte youre hertes / & stablysshe you in all doctrine & good doynge.
The .iii. Chapter.
Furthermore brethren praye for vs / þt the worde of god maye have fre passage and be gloryfied / as it is with you:
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and that we maye be delivered from vnresonable and evyll men. For all men have not fayth: but the lorde is faythfull / which shall stablysshe you / and kepe you from evyll. Wehave confidence thorow the lorde to you warde / that ye both do / and will do / that which we c

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de you. And þ
e lorde gyde youre hert[es] vnto þ
e love of God & paci

ce of Christ.
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We requyre you brethren in the name of oure lorde Iesu Christ / þ
t ye with drawe youre selves from every brother that walketh inordinatly / and not after the instituci

which ye receaved of vs. Ye youre selves knowe how ye ought to folowe vs. For we behaved not oure selves inordinatly amonge you. Nether toke we breed of eny m

for nought: but wrought with laboure and travayle nyght & daye / because we wolde not be grevous to eny of you: not but that we had auctoritie: but to make oure selves an insample vnto you / to folowe vs. For when we were with you / this we warned you of / þ
t yf ther were eny which wolde not worke / that þ
e same shuld not eate.
We have hearde saye no doute that ther are some which walke amonge you inordinatly & worke not at all / but are besy bodies.
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Them that are soche / we commaunde and exhorte
by oure lorde Iesu Christ / that they worke with quyetnes / and eate their awne breed. Brethren be not wery in well doynge. Yf eny man obey not oure sayinges / sende vs worde of him by a letter:
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7.D & have no c

panie with him that he maye be ashamed. And count him not as an enemy: but warne him as a brother.
The very lorde of peace geve you peace all wayes / by all meanes. The lorde be with you all. The salutacion of me Paul with myne awne honde. This is the token in all pistles. So I write. The grace of oure lorde Iesus Christ be with you all Amen.
Sent from Athens.