A03620:224
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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THE five and six verses be word for word, as the first & the second were: Only there is left out in these two verses, this word (greatly:) for before he said, He should not (greatly) fall. The which word may be taken two ways very comfortable, of the reader and hearer, if it be well marked and believed.
THE fiue and sixe verses be worde for worde, as the first & the second were: Onely there is left out in these two verses, this word (greatly:) for before he saide, He should not (greatly) fall. The which worde may be taken two wayes very comfortable, of the reader and hearer, if it be well marked and beléeued.
The first way is,1 that the Prophet meaneth not, that the people of God shall not fall,2 for that is against the Scripture: for, The just man falleth seven times in the day. 3Again, If we say we have no sin in us, we deceive our selves: and the trueth is not in us. Now, whereas sin inseparably dwelleth (as it doeth in all men whilst they live upon the earth) there be faults and falls before God of the mans part, in whom this sin dwelleth: yet God of his ⟨p. 64⟩mercy for the blood and death of Christ,4 doeth not account these inseparable sins to be falls: but loveth the person, preserveth him, and will not impute nor lay any of those falls or faults, unto his charge, but in Christ esteem him justified and clean, as though he were of him self so in deed. And thus the Prophet saith, that of Gods part, and by our acceptation into his favour,5 through Christ, the faithful falleth not.