{"passage":["1 Thessalonians 2"],"results":[{"document":"wcf1646","id":"1.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/1.4","segments":[{"text":"The Authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be beleeved and obeyed, dependeth not upon the Testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is Truth it selfe) the Author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"14.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/14.2","segments":[{"text":"By this Faith, a Christian beleeveth to be true, whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God himself speaking therein;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"1.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/1.4","segments":[{"text":"The Authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, depends not upon the Testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is Truth it self) the Author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"14.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/14.2","segments":[{"text":"By this Faith, a Christian believes to be true, whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God himself speaking therein;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/109","segments":[{"text":"and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:15–16"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"113","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/113","segments":[{"text":"or any wise opposing of God’s truth, grace, and ways;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:16"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"125","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/125","segments":[{"text":"Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:7–8, 11"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"151","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/151","segments":[{"text":"and the common good of all or many.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:15–16"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"159","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/159","segments":[{"text":"aiming at his glory,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:4–6"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"160","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/160","segments":[{"text":"as the word of God;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/109","segments":[{"text":"and opposing the worship and ordinances which God has appointed.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:15–16"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"113","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/113","segments":[{"text":"or any wise opposing of God’s truth, grace, and ways;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:16"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"125","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/125","segments":[{"text":"Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:7–8, 11"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"151","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/151","segments":[{"text":"and the common good of all or many.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:15–16"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"159","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/159","segments":[{"text":"aiming at his glory,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:4–6"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"160","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/160","segments":[{"text":"as the word of God;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Two waies, 1. In opposition to dead Idols.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:9"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"neglect, especially","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:16"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"41","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/41","segments":[{"text":"That Christians are obliged to walk suitable to their heavenly calling.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:12"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"67","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/67","segments":[{"text":"(2.) To be full of bowels of tender Affection to them,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:7–8"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"67","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/67","segments":[{"text":"(2.) To attend on the Word preached by them, as the Word of God,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"By the Word is meant the Word of God, consigned to writing in the Books of the Old and New Testament, which though it be ministred by men, yet it is no other than the very Word of God, and as such to be received,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"By an effectual mean, is meant such a mean as fully obtains and accomplishes the end it was appointed for,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"The Devil and Mens Lusts internally,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:18"]}]},{"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 Ministers to their people are, 1. Dear and tender Love to their Souls, We were gentle amongst you, as a Nurse cherisheth her Children: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you not the Gospel only, but also our own Souls, because you were dear unto us;","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:7–8"]},{"text":"2. 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":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"The Word doth work effectually unto Salvation through Faith. Ye received it not as the Word of men, but (as it is in truth) the Word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"The Faith which is required in Reading and Hearing of the Word, doth imply; 1. In general, a believing assent unto the Divine Authority of the whole Scripture, that it is indeed the Word of God, and however it were Penned by divers Holy Men in divers Ages, that yet the whole was Indighted, and they writ nothing but as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost. We thank God, because when ye received the Word of God which ye received of us, ye received it not as the Word of men, but (as it is in truth) the Word of God.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God hath called us to his Kingdom and Glory,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We exhorted and comforted, and charged, every one of you as a Father doth his Children,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"No. But as it is in Truth the Word of God,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Who hath called you to his kingdom and glory,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:12"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"43","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/43","segments":[{"text":"It is wrath to the uttermost,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:16"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Ye became followers of the churches of Christ,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:14"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/109","segments":[{"text":"We would have come to you once and again, but Satan hindered us,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"(1.) Because, the Word is to be received by us, not as the word of man, but as the Word of GOD,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"(2.) Because, God is said to punish one sin, with another.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:11–12"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"These things are most euident, and cleere in the holy Scripture, where is set downe, both the calling of the predestinate,","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:12"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"and lawfull vocations to liue, and thriue by.","proofs":["1 Thessalonians 2:9"]}]}]}