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favour and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are oblig'd, my brethren, to render thanks to God continually upon your account, as it is but just; since your faith still improves, and your mutual love is always increasing.

so that you are the subject of our glorying in the churches of God, for the constancy of your faith, under all the persecutions and afflictions you endure from men,

by which you may be assur'd, that they will be punish'd by the divine justice, and that you shall be rewarded with the kingdom of God, for which you suffer;

in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those, who know not God, and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Wherefore we continually pray, that our God would by his power effect all the gracious designs of his goodness, and accomplish the work of faith in you;

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified by you, and you by him, by the favour of our God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

that adversary that exalts it self above the divine authority of majesty: that is seated in the temple of God, pretending to be it self divine.

wherefore God will suffer a spirit of delusion to work them into the belief of a lye:

As for you, my brethren, the favourites of the Lord, we are oblig'd to render perpetual thanks to God, for having chosen you from the beginning, in purifying you by his spirit, upon your believing the gospel.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ, and God our father, who has loved us, and by his favour given us the advantageous hopes of eternal joys, consolate your souls,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the appointment of God our saviour, and of Jesus Christ our hope,

to Timothy my sincere convert, favour, mercy and peace from God our father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust.

to the king of the world, the immortal, invisible, and the only God be honour and glory to endless ages. amen.

for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour,

for there is but one God, and but one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

for if a man is incapable of governing his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, that is, in the church of the true God.

the mystery of piety is the pillar and basts of truth; and certainly most extraordinary. God has appear'd in the flesh, been justified by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaim'd to the Gentiles, believ'd by the world, and assum'd into glory.