Footnotes

1. 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Fourthly, he saith, that idle and lazy persons ought not to be relieved of the Church, nay, that they are not to be suffered.
2. 2 Thessalonians 3:7 Lest he might seem to deal harshly with them, he setteth forth himself as an example, who besides his travail in preaching labored with his hands, which he saith he was not simply bound to do.
3. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 What shall we do then with those idle bellied Monks, and sacrificing Priests? A Monk (saith Socrates, book 8, of his Tripartite history) which worketh not with hands, is like a thief.
4. 2 Thessalonians 3:11 How great a fault idleness is, he declareth by that that God created no man in vain or to no purpose, neither is there any unto whom he hath not allotted as it were a certain standing and room. Whereupon it followeth, that the order which God hath appointed, is troubled by the idle, yea, broken, which is great sin and wickedness.
5. 2 Thessalonians 3:11 He reprehendeth a vice which is joined with the former, whereupon follow an infinite sort of mischiefs: to wit, that there are none more busy in other men’s matters than they which neglect their own.
6. 2 Thessalonians 3:12 The Lord commandeth, and the Apostles pray in the name of Christ, first that no men be idle, and next, that every man do quietly and carefully see to do his duty in that office and calling wherein the Lord hath placed him.
7. 2 Thessalonians 3:13 We must take heed that some men’s unworthiness cause us not to be slacker in well doing.
8. 2 Thessalonians 3:14 Excommunication is a punishment for the obstinate.
9. 2 Thessalonians 3:14 We must have no familiarity nor fellowship with the excommunicate.
10. 2 Thessalonians 3:14 The end of the excommunication is not the destruction, but the salvation of the sinner, that at least through shame he may be driven in repentance.
11. 2 Thessalonians 3:15 We must so eschew familiarity with the excommunicate, that we diligently seek all occasions and means that may be to bring them again into the right way.