A03620:357
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 seventh part.
¶The seuenth part.
16 Then thought I to understand this, but it was too hard for me, &c.
16 Then thought I to vnderstand this, but it was too hard for mee, &c.
WE learn out of this part, that until reason be amended and removed from her natural blindness, it can do none other, but condemn both God, and Gods people. And no marvel: for the Prophet in the 83. Psalm, & also in the 31. Psalm hath these words:1 Consultaverunt aduersus absconditos tuos, They have consulted against thy hidden people. As though he had said: The merciful father of heaven, keepeth the godly people in most sure and strong defence and protection: but this kind of protection is hid from the eyes of mans reason. So that it seemeth many times, that God hath the less care of the godly, and passeth more of the wicked then of them. Yet, howsoever the world judgeth, God sleepeth not. Further, how blessed the state and life of the godly is, and how cursed the life and state of the wicked is, only the virtuous and godly do perceive. Therefore the Scripture calleth those that be godly and virtuous, The hidden of God. Moreover, the godly do perceive, that all the vanity of worldly things, which be the treasures of the wicked: and the ⟨image 83⟩