. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. i Thess. iii. 8. Now we live, if ye fland faji in AINT PAUL, having lately con-verted the Thejfalonians to the Chris-tian Faith, was calld to preach theGofpel in other Parts. In this hisnecefTary Abfence, he ftill retains atender fatherly Affection for hisChildren : We being taken from you for a JhortTime, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee yourFace with great Defire, Chap. ii. 17. Wherefore weWould have come unto you once and again, I Paulefpedaily y but Satan hind-red us. He had put up-on St. Paul a Neceffity
. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. i Thess. iii. 8. Now we live, if ye fland faji in AINT PAUL, having lately con-verted the Thejfalonians to the Chris-tian Faith, was calld to preach theGofpel in other Parts. In this hisnecefTary Abfence, he ftill retains atender fatherly Affection for hisChildren : We being taken from you for a JhortTime, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee yourFace with great Defire, Chap. ii. 17. Wherefore weWould have come unto you once and again, I Paulefpedaily y but Satan hind-red us. He had put up-on St. Paul a Neceffity of Haying where he was,to fettle fome unfeafonable Difputes and Contro-verfies with the Stoicks and Epicureans, raisd bythis great Enemy of Souls, on Purpofe to divertthe bleffed Apoftle from his charitable Defign to-wards the Thejfalonians. When St. Paul foundhimfelf thus hindred, he fends Timothy with a T 4 Commif- 280 A Cannon agamfi Commiflion in his Name, to vifit his Thejfaloni-ans^ to ftablifh his new Converts, to comfort them,and to know their Faith, left by fome Means theTempter hath tempted you, and our Labour be
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