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Men ought to be diligent in their particular Callings for this end, that they may provide for themselves and their Families, Do your own business, and work with your own hands, that ye may have lack of nothing.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 4:11–12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"This is the will of God, even your sanctification.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 4:3"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Ye turned from Idols to serve the Living God.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 1:9"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"Them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 4:14"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"The dead in Christ shall rise first.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 4:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"2. Believers shall be all caught up together in the Clouds, to meet the Lord Jesus, who will come down with a shout from Heaven, For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds, to meet the Lord in the Air.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 4:16–17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"That which will sweeten the happiness of Believers in their full enjoyment of God in Heaven, will be the Eternity hereof; that it will be without any interruption and without any end, And so shall we ever be with the Lord?","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 4:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"Forbidding us to speak unto the Gentiles, that they may be saved, filling up their sin alway.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"The duties of People to their Ministers are, 1. 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Diligent Sincere, and frequent Preaching the Word unto them, with Administration of all Ordinances, For our Exhortation was not of Deceit, or in Guile; but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God which trieth our hearts,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:3–4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"The duties of equals one to another are, 1. 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Pray without ceasing,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 5:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"102","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/102","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That we may be preserv’d blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 5:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"102","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/102","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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