i8o CONTENTS. FIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS Continued. PAGE 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 that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord 355 HOMILY IX. i Thess. v. i, 2. But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night 360 HOMILY X. i Thess. v. 12, 13. But we beseech you,brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their works sake. Be at peace among yourselves 366 HOMILY XL i Thess. v. 19-22. Quench not the Spirit; despise not prophesyings; prove all things; hold fast that which is good; abstain from every form of evil 370 SECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS. HOMILY I. Argument 377 HOMILY II. 2 Thess. i. I, 2. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 380 HOMILY III. 2 Thess. i. 9, 10. Who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His might, when He shall come to be glorified in His Saints, and to be mar veled at in all them that believed 384 HOMILY IV. 2 Thess. ii. 6-9. And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work : only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to naught by the manifestation of his coming : even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan 388 HOMILY V. 2 Thess. iii. 3-5. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and guard you from the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. . . . 393