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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10770	An exposicion in Englishe vpon the Epistle of .S. Paule, to the Colossians wherin the letter is purely declared, with many good exhortations to flee vice, and to take vertue, as shall appere clerely to the faithfull reader throughout all this epistle: written by Lancelot Ridley of Cantorbury. Anno salutis humanæ M.D.XLVIII.; Exposicion in Englishe upon the Epistle of. S. Paule to the Colossians.	Ridley, Lancelot, d. 1576.	1548 (1548)	STC 21039; ESTC S104540	65,741	282

present worlde and went to Thessalonica Learne in Demas that there be many now a daies like to hym as long as with Paule all thynges was prosperous he was a faithful minister to Paule and a faithful disciple of Christe but when he sawe Paule caste in prison he forsoke Paule and his doctryne and folowed the worlde suche there be in the worlde that will be fauorers of Goddes worde as long as pleasure profite fauor of mē honor glory and riches do followe the worde of GOD but if affliccion persecucion losse of gooddes riches landes possessions or suche other aduersitie should followe the fauoryng of Gods worde then many shrynketh away from it and foloweth the worlde as this Demas did of suche speaketh Christe Math. xiii Many for a tyme dooth beleue but in tyme of tribulaciōs thei shrynke awaie Therfore he that standeth let hym looke that he fall not let hym not truste to muche to his awne mighte or power for if he doo he shall deceiue hymself and haue a fall as Demas had 3 Salute the brethren whiche are at Laodice He desireth thē to salute in his name the brethrē that are at Laodice and Nympham and the whole congregacion or company in her house whiche he calleth a Churche for a small congregacion of faithefull Christians maie be called a Churche Note that the whole house for the moste parte do fauor the Gospell of God where as the chief of the house doo fauor it as this good Nimpha did fauor the Gospell with all her housholde 4 And when this Epistle shal be redde of you loke that the Epistle written from Laodice maie be redde emonges you and this of the Laodicenses The Apostle will this Epistle first to bee redde emonges the Colossians and then to the churche of Laodice that all might here it redde and be edefied by it take some of the Godly lessons taughte in it and he willeth it to bee redde bothe to the church of the Colossians and of Laodice of the whiche we may gather the holy scriptures not to be communicated onely to one cōgregaciō of people but to bee mete for all Christians that thei might come to saluacion by faithe in Christe Also where as Paule here willeth an Epistle of the Laodice to bee redde emonges these Colossians some thynketh that he would the Epistle that he wrote to the Laodiceans whiche Epistle I haue sene in Print to bee redde to these Colossians Other thynke that he would haue red emonges the Colossians the Epistle that he wrote at Laodice and that thei saie was the secōd Epistle to Timothe And tell Archippus loke that thou take hede of that Administracion that thou haste taken in the lorde that thou maie fulfill it Now last of all he monisheth them to admonishe Archippus the Bishop of these Colossians that he would loke diligenty vpon his cure that he had taken in hande that he should knowe that it was the Lordes busines that was committed to him and that of it he should geue a coūpt to the Lorde in the laste daie Learne that Archippus was a Bishop appoynted to these Colossiās rather then to other and not as Paule was a Bishoppe hauyng like cure ouer all people And as it was Archippus duetie to haue cure and care for all his people and diligently to watche to doo his duetie and to minister euery thyng in due ordre to the glory of God and to the profite of other so it was the duetie of these Colossians to minister to Archippus all necessaries for his liuyng i. Corin. ix.i. Timothe v. Matth. x. Salutacion by the proper hande of Paule Remembre you my bondes The grace of GOD bee with you Amen Paule shutteth vp his Epistle sealyng it with a salutaciō writen by his awne hand as menne writyng Epistles vseth to dooe sealeth the Epistle setting to his awne hand writen that it might bee knowen who wrote that Epistle and be the better loued 2 Remembre you my bondes In these wordes he signifieth to theim that he suffered bondes for their sakes that thei should walke in the waie of the Lorde and obtein eternall life and that thei should not bee ashamed for his bondes whiche was to the glory of God and to the healthe of Christians And in these wordes he moueth theim to pitie ouer him and that thei should offre vp feruēt praiers to the lord for him and that thei should not suffre hym to want necessaries seyng he was in bōdes for their sakes and health 3 The grace of GOD bee with you Amen Laste of all he desireth the grace of GOD and of our Lorde Iesu Christ to be alwaie present with theim In desiryng grace of God he beganne his epistle and with desiryng of grace to theim he endeth his Epistle signifiyng that without the grace of God wee can begyn no good woorke nor yet finishe it well but by the grace of God whiche would haue euery man saued and come to the knowlege of the truth To God the father and to his sonne Iesus Christe with the holy ghoste bee all honor and glory now and euer Amen EXCVSVM LONDINI IN AEDIBVS RICHARDI GRAFTONI TYPOGRAPHI REGII Anno salutis humanae M. D.XLV.III CVM PRIVILEGIO AD IMPRIMENDVM SOLVM