TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in Bishops.
Loke downe then from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thy sanctuarie and thy glorie: Howe is it that thy gelousie, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and thy louing kindnesse wyll not be intreated of vs?
Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spryng from an hygh hath visited vs.
I say ye trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience also bearyng me witnesse by the holy ghost,
And his inwarde affection is more aboundaunt towarde you, when he remembred the obedience of you all, howe with feare and tremblyng ye receaued hym.
The thynges therfore which I write vnto you, beholde, before God I lie not.
If there be therefore any consolation in Christe, yf any comfort of loue, if any felowship of ye spirite, yf any compassion and mercie,
Therfore my brethren beloued & longed for, my ioy and crowne, so continue in the Lorde ye beloued.
Put on therfore (as the elect of God, holy and beloued) bowels of mercie, kyndenesse, humblenesse of mynde, mekenesse, long sufferyng,
So, beyng tenderly affected towarde you, our good wyll was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospell of God only: but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.
Whom I haue sent agayne: Thou therefore receaue hym, that is, myne owne bowels,
But who so hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from hym: howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym?