Election known by its fruits, the portrait of a true pastor, the dead in Christ raised at the trumpet of God, and the day of the Lord coming as a thief in the night, with the Geneva Bible's marginal notes throughout. Choose a chapter.
After that the Thessalonians had been well instructed in the faith, persecution, which perpetually followeth the preaching of the Gospel, arose, against the which although they did constantly stand, yet St. Paul (as most careful for them) sent Timothy to strengthen them, who soon after admonishing him of their estate, gave occasion to the Apostle to confirm them by divers arguments to be constant in faith, and to suffer whatsoever God calleth them unto for the testimony of the Gospel, exhorting them to declare by their godly living the purity of their religion. And as the Church can never be so purged, that some cockle [weeds] remain not among the wheat, so there were among them wicked men, which by moving vain and curious questions to overthrow their faith, taught falsely, as touching the point of the resurrection from the dead: whereof he briefly instructeth them what to think, earnestly forbidding them to seek curiously to know the times, willing them rather to watch lest the sudden coming of Christ come upon them at unawares: and so after certain exhortations, and his commendations to the brethren, he endeth.
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