A03620:415
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Commentary Psalm 77 › Body of exposition › Part 3 (verses 2-9): ¶The third part.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now in the trouble of the spirit is an other thing to be considered, whereof the text also maketh mention: that is, how the discomfort of the spirit had continuance all the night. Whereof is to be gathered the greatness of discomfort. For as the night is a very image of death, and the bed a very similitude of the sepulchre and grave: even so is the discomfort of the spirit in the night, that will not suffer the body to take rest, but to be unquieted with it self.1 The which unquietness of the spirit, is a very similitude and image of eternal discomfort in the world to come, that both body and soul, which were created first to inherit the heavenly bliss, after the fall of Adam, should rest by night, (as king David saith) and after this life,2 for sin unforgiven, should for ever be disquieted in the unquenchable fire of hell.
Nowe in the trouble of the spirite is an other thing to be considered, whereof the text also maketh mention: that is, howe the discomfort of the spirite had continuaunce all the night. Whereof is to be gathered the greatnesse of discomfort. For as the night is a very image of death, and the bed a very similitude of the sepulchre and graue: euen so is the discomfort of the spirite in the night, that will not suffer the body to take rest, but to be vnquieted with it selfe.1 The which vnquietnesse of the spirite, is a very similitude and image of eternall discomfort in the world to come, that both body and soule, whiche were created first to inherite the heauenly blisse, after the fall of Adam, should rest by night, (as king Dauid saith) and after this life,2 for sinne vnforgiuen, should for euer be disquieted in the vnquenchable fire of hell.