1 Thessalonians 3

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FOrbear] Endure the discomfort of your absence, and the desire I have to see you To be left] It is likely that this hath a relation to what is spoken, Acts 17:15. and that afterTimothie was come back to the Apostle in Athens, he sent him backe to Thessalonica.

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Timotheus] to supplie in part by him, what we could not performe by our presence.

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Appointed] And placed by Gods vocation, to be conformable to Christ, as well in afflictions as in glorie, Rom. 8. 17. 28. A terme taken from souldiers that are sentinels in their watch-house, and to other duties belonging to martial discipline.

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We live] notwithstanding all our miseries, and death which is present before us, we are safe and sound, and very chearfull if that ye stand firme and sound in your faith in Christ.

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For what] this so happeneth unto us, because God gives us in you incomparable cause of joy and comfort, for which we cannot thanke him sufficiently Before our] that is to say, spiritually, or with a hearty joy, of which he is a witnesse, or acknowledging the cause thereof to proceed from him onely, and giving him thankes therefore.

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Perfect] Instruct and confirme you more fully in Christian doctrine and finish the establishment of your Church, which shortnesse of time would not suffer me to do at my first comming.

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Establish] that by meanes of the gift of charitie, which is the spring of all good workes, you may persevere in true holinesse approved by God without any voluntary offence or malice At the comming] that you may be known to be such by Christ himselfe at the last judgement, or untill his comming With all his] this may have a relation either to the establishment in holinesse in the communion of all believers, as Ephes. 3. 18. Colossians 3:1-25; Colossians 4:1-18. or to the last comming of Christ, accompanied with his holy Angels, Zechariah 14:5. Matth. 25. 31. Jude 1:14.