A03620:410
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 3 (verses 2-9): ¶The third part.
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But this is a consolation, that the elect, as they find anxiety and anguish of mind for sin in this life: so in this life is the conscience that is troubled, by grace quieted, that it may after this life find eternal rest. And it is a common order and ordinary way,1 whereby GOD useth to bring the sinner to acknowledge and repent his sin, and so from knowledge and repentance to the forgiveness of his sin: to show and set before the conscience of the sinner, his sin: as the example of king David and others do declare. My sin (saith David) is always before me. As though he had said: In case I could hide mine iniquity from all the world,2 yet can I not excuse it before God, nor hide it ⟨image 91⟩from mine own conscience. And every mans sins thus open before God, and known and felt in his own conscience, bringeth the soul into this discomfort and heaviness, that it refuseth all consolation and comfort: as this Prophet Asaph saith marvellously in this second verse of his Psalm.
But this is a consolation, that the elect, as they finde anxietie and anguish of minde for sinne in this life: so in this life is the consciēce that is troubled, by grace quieted, that it may after this life finde eternall rest. And it is a common order and ordinarie way,1 whereby GOD vseth to bring the sinner to acknowledge and repent his sin, and so from knowledge and repentaunce to the forgiuenesse of his sinne: to shewe and set before the conscience of the sinner, his sinne: as the example of king Dauid and others do declare. My sinne (saith Dauid) is alwayes before me. As though he had said: In case I coulde hide mine iniquitie from all the world,2 yet can I not excuse it before God, nor hide it ⟨image 91⟩from mine owne conscience. And euery mans sinnes thus open before God, and knowne and felt in his own conscience, bringeth the soule into this discomfort and heauinesse, that it refuseth all consolation and comfort: as this Prophet Asaph sayth meruellously in this second verse of his Psalme.