A03620:263
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 second and third verse.
2. Nevertheless my feet were almost gone, my treadings had wellnigh slipped. 3. And why? I was grieved at the wicked, I do see also the ungodly in such prosperity.
2. Neuerthelesse my feet were almost gone, my treadinges had welneere slipt. 3. And why? I was greeued at the wicked, I doe see also the vngodly in such prosperitie.
¶The plain Explanation.
¶The plaine Explanation.
Yet notwithstanding,1 when I saw the good afflicted, and the evil prosper,2 it troubled my mind: so ⟨p. 71⟩so that in manner I was forced and compelled, thorough indignation, to judge of God as other evil men did: and grievously offended his high majesty, in thinking his doings not indifferent, in troubling the good, and quieting of the bad.