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A16616	A plaine and pithy exposition of the second Epistle to the Thessalonians. By that learned & judicious diuine Mr William Bradshaw, sometime fellow of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge. Published since his deceasse by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and paster of Rotherhith	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1620 (1620)	STC 3523; ESTC S106386	110,550	220

truth of this which the Apostle here affirmeth If thou do not thou art no Christian but a very Infidell if thou do beleeue it how comes it to passe that thou seekest no more after the knowledge of God yea that thou hatest to know God and affectest to be ignorant of him How commeth it to passe that thou liuest in disobedience of the Gospell and resoluest so to doe Though thou couet thy neighbours Oxe and his sheep yet thou wilt not steale them though thou malice and hate thy neighbour to the death yet thou wilt not murther him because thou perswadest thy selfe that thou shalt be hanged for it if thou do so and though there may be some possibilitie of concealing the matter or of flying from the Iudge yet thou wilt not put it to the aduenture Thou saist thou beleeuest that Christ at the latter day will come in flaming fire to punish with euerlasting perdition those which know not God and which obey not the Gospell of Iesus Christ and yet thou art ignorant of God and despisest the Gospell which plainly manifesteth that thou esteemest of this which the Apostle here affirmeth as an old wiues fable whatsoeuer thou pretendest to the contrary and therefore that thou art but a masked Infidell But they that will not beleeue this doctrine shall one day to their eternall horrour feele the truth of it Let so many of vs as feare the Lord and tremble at his word often meditate of this If a man should be condemned to lye for a thousand yeares togither vpon a soft fether-bed and during all that time should heare nothing but the sweetest musicke that may be yet he would choose rather to dye a dogs death then to indure the wearisomnesse thereof how shall a man then beare this Iudgement to lye in the burning lake of Gods wrath in vnspeakable torment not for a thousand yeares but for euer and euer If an houre in torment seeme a yeare how long will this houre seeme that shall neuer haue end But when a man hath indured it as many thousands of yeares as there be starres in the heauen or drops of water in the Sea yet he shall be no more neere his end then he was at the very first moment of his torment Those that are but common and indifferent wise men amongst vs vse to dislike and condemne the courses of those mens liues how iolly and pleasant soeuer they be in the same whereby they hazard and ruinate their estates and follow desperate and break-neck courses by meanes whereof their liberties and liues are indangered oh that any Christians then should be so brutish and without vnderstanding as to approue either in themselues or others those wayes and courses that directly lead a man bodie and soule to this eternall ruine from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power The third Argument whereby he amplifieth the reuenge aforesaid is from the place wherein they which know not God nor obey the Gospell shall suffer eternall destruction which is here described by the priuation of Gods presence and of the glory of his power The meaning whereof is thus much That they shall for euer and euer be tormented in such a place where they shall be euer remoued from the gratious presence of God and shall neuer behold that glorious power of his which he manifesteth in the eternall glorifying and blessing of his Saints in heauen such shall be the detestation and hatred that the Lord shall beare towards them that he will not indure them to abide in his presence but will shut them vp in eternall darknes where the light of his gracious countenance and his sauing power which is the glory of his power shall neuer shine vnto them so that the Lord will neuer looke after them neuer come vnto them neuer so much as cast his eye towards them nor the place where they are nor shew the least part of his glorious power in that place to the mitigating of their torment but will leaue them altogither to the power of the Deuill and to the comfortlesse presence of damned Spirits where they shall see nothing but horrour and confusion nor heare any thing but howling and crying and gnashing of teeth without the least hope of any comfort from God out of whose presence they are for euer and euer excluded and thrust out What a fearfull vengeance is this that Christ in that day will execute vpon the wicked persons aboue described How should the consideration of this restraine all good Christians from reuenging their owne quarrels vpon the enemies of the Gospell though they had neuer so much power to do the same For can a Christian heart desire a greater vengeance then this vpon any how wicked soeuer and what wrongs soeuer they had done them If God should giue vp our enimies into our owne hands to do with them what we would would we if we could be more auenged of them then Christ will be for our sake Certainly it is not possible for the most malicious curser and banner that euer was to desire a greater vengeance then this How wonderfull malicious then are all such as professe that they beleeue thus much yet thinke it not inough vnlesse they also may adde something more vnto this vengeance It is a world to see how Christians vpon euery trifling occasion are ready to flie at the faces of them which trespasse against them and against the expresse will of God to reuenge their owne causes as though either they did not beleeue that Christ would execute any such vengeance vpon them or that if he would yet that it were not vengeance inough for any trespasse committed against their persons Whensoeuer therefore any enemies of the Gospell shall offer wrong vnto vs in words or deeds let vs leaue the reuenge to this Iudge who will either in this life make them repent it yea more repent it then we could make them though we had power to hang them for it or else he will make them eternally to rue it in the world to come which is a greater vengeance then the most spitefull and malicious stomacke that euer was if he knew or beleeued what it was could wish vnto him he hateth to the death If a man for some pettie trifling wrong done vnto any of vs should by the Magistrate be cast into prison for our sake there to be reserued till the generall Assises then to be hanged without any hope of pardon except he yeelded full satisfaction vnto vs as much euery way as we would require would not this punishment content vs Would we not if we had any good nature in vs be grieued that he should for our cause suffer so much Were we not monstrously malicious if notwithstanding all this we should desire to be farther auenged of him by reuiling and beating him in the prison by misvsing him in his wife children goods and good name all that we can There is not beloued any man that