A03620:273
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 fifth and sixth Verse.
THE fift and sixt Verse.
5 They come into no misfortunes like other folk, neither are they plagued like other men. 6 And this is the cause that they be so holden with pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty.
5 They come into no misfortunes like other folke, neither are they plagued like other men. 6 And this is the cause that they be so holden with pride, and ouerwhelmed with crueltie.
¶The plain explanation.
¶The plaine explanation.
If any miss of loss and damage in this world, it is they: if sickness flieth from any, it flieth from them. So that much felicity, and little adversity, causeth them to know neither God, they neighbours, nor themselves.