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For with Quietness we must work and eat our own Bread,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:12"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"God shall send them strong delusion to believe a lie,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:11"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:9"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"For it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:6"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"God hath from the beginning chosen you,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Ye are chosen to salvation through sanctification,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"He will come in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:8"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"For he will then be glorified in his saints, and admired by all them that believe,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:10"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Whereunto he called you by our gospel,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:14"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"’Tis called sanctification of the Spirit,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:13"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"39","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/39","segments":[{"text":"Thus the apostle tells the Thessalonians, that their faith grew exceedingly, and their charity towards each other abounded,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:3"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"43","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/43","segments":[{"text":"He shall recompence tribulation to them that trouble you,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:6"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"52","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/52","segments":[{"text":"For they do honour to one who sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"62","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/62","segments":[{"text":"This we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he eat,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:10"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved?","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:10"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/109","segments":[{"text":"His coming is after the working of Satan,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:9"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/109","segments":[{"text":"He opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/109","segments":[{"text":"That the word of the Lord might have free course, and be glorified,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/109","segments":[{"text":"Now our Lord Jesus—comfort your hearts,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:17"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"111","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/111","segments":[{"text":"That we may eat our own bread,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:12"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"(5.) Because, all that know not GOD, will be punished eternally,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:8"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:9"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:13–14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, that which is natural, is proper to all; but all men have not Faith;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"But all that believe in him, are powerfully called;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:13–14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"(4) Because, if any man obey not our Word, by this Epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Neither ought we to follow, or hear any man, no not an Angel if he teach any thing contrary to the Word, or Heterodox from it;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:2"]},{"text":"To pray for them;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"(7) Because, it is the mark of Antichrist, to exalt himself above all, that is called God;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(6) Because, the Apostle Paul did foretel that general defection, and apostasy of the visible church mentioned;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:3"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(5) Because, before the day of Christ be at hand, there shall be a falling away of the visible church, from the true Orthodox Faith to Antichristianism, which in great part is already come to pass, and more than is to come between this time and his second coming:","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:3"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:3–4, 8"]},{"text":"Though this be denyed by the church of Rome, yet the true discription of Antichrist agrees to him. 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Who are to excommunicate, namely such as haue authoritie in the Church.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"euen as to a brother,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:15"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"in sitting in the Temple of God, as God, shewing himselfe that he is God;","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 2:4"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"honest labour,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:8"]},{"text":"and lawfull vocations to liue, and thriue by.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:8"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"That in all my miseries and persecutions I looke, with my head lifted vp, for the verie same, who before yeelded himselfe vnto the iudgemēt of God for me, and tooke away all malediction from me, to come iudge from heauen, to throw al his & my enimies into euerlasting paines, but to","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 1:6–7"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"receiued as members of Christ and his Church.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:14–15"]}]}]}