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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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Thus doeth the Prophet Asaphe teach all men to put their trust in Christ, and not in sinful man: ⟨p. 68⟩which is not only vanity: 1but also, If vanity were laid in one balance, and man in the other, yet of both man were the more vanity. Therefore man is not to be trusted unto: (saith the Prophet.)
Thus doeth the Prophete Asaphe teach all men to put their trust in Christe, and not in sinfull man: ⟨p. 68⟩which is not onely vanitie: 1but also, If vanitie were laid in one balance, and man in the other, yet of both man were the more vanitie. Therefore man is not to be trusted vnto: (saith the Prophet.)
- 1Man more vain then vanity.Man more vaine then vanitie.
And for a further declaration that man is more vain, then vanity: he openly declareth in the process of his Psalm, that man is given besides vanity, to wrong and robbery, which two evils do increase mans miseries.1 For man is not only borne vain vanity: but also by process of time in wicked living, addeth wrong and robbery unto vanity, and so maketh vanity more vain and damnable, then it was before.
And for a further declaration that man is more vaine, then vanitie: he openly declareth in the processe of his Psalme, that man is giuen besides vanitie, to wrong and robberie, which two euilles do increase mans miseries.