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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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Commentary Psalm 77 › Body of exposition › Part 1 (verse 1): ¶The first part.
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In this first part be two sorts of people condemned.1 The one is such as plainly despair, and in ⟨image 85⟩their troubles, neither look for consolation, nor yet believe that there is any consolation to be hoped for in Christ. The other is such as seek consolation, but not only at Gods hand & power, but at the Saints departed, at witches, conjurers, hypocrites, and the works devised and done by man.
In this first part be two sorts of people condemned.1 The one is such as plainely despaire, and in ⟨image 85⟩their troubles, neither looke for consolation, nor yet beléeue that there is any consolation to be hoped for in Christ. The other is such as séeke consolation, but not onely at Gods hand & power, but at the Saincts departed, at witches, coniurers, hypocrites, and the workes deuised and done by man.
- 1Two sons of people condemned.
The first sort be left comfortless, because they seek no consolation: and the second sort find no comfort, because they seek it where it is not, contrary unto God and his holy word. Happy therefore is the troubled, that seeketh consolation at Gods hands, and no where else:1 For he is (as it is written by the Prophet Isaiah,) the God alone, that doth save, and none but he. 2But there be two manner of impediments that keep the Almighty God from the helping and comforting of people that be in trouble.