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Certain comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. John Hooper, Bishop of…Certeine comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. Iohn Hooper, Bishop of…
Certain comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester written in the time of his tribulation and imprisonment, upon the XXIII. LXII. LXXIII. and LXXVII. Psalms of the prophet David.Certeine comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. Iohn Hooper, Bishop of Glocester and Worcester written in the time of his tribulation and imprisonment, vpon the XXIII. LXII. LXXIII. and LXXVII. Psalmes of the prophet Dauid.
London: printed by Henry Middleton, 1580London: printed by Henrie Middleton, 1580
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3 Howe long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Ye shall be slain all the sort of you: yea as a rottering wall shall ye be, & like a broken hedge. 4. Their devise is only how to put him out, whom God will exalt, their delight is in lies: They give good words with their mouth, but curse with their hearts.
3 Howe long will ye imagine mischiefe against a man? Ye shall be slaine all the sort of you: yea as a rottering wal shal ye be, & like a broken hedge. 4. Their deuise is onely how to put him out, whome God will exalt, their delight is in lies: They giue good woordes with their mouth, but curse with their heartes.
The third part showeth, how the persecutors of the innocent shall suddenly perish.
The third part sheweth, how the persequuters of the innocent shall soudeinly perishe.
1BY the similitude and Metaphor of a tottering or quivering wall, the Prophet declareth, how lightly and suddenly the Lord will destroy the persecutors of his people. For as the wall that is tottering and quivering, with every wind & weather, is easily and suddenly overthrown: even so be the wicked and tyrannical persecutors suddenly destroyed: yea when they be in their own conceits, most strong and valiant. As it may be seen by the ⟨image 55⟩mighty host of Zenecharib and Benedab:2 the army of king Pharaoh and such other, that persecuted the people of God:3