A03620:417
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.
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.
This whole night in discomfort of the spirit, declareth two notable things.1 First, how earnestly God is angry in deed with sin, that putteth man to such long pain for it. And the next, how gracious a God he is, that will not yet suffer the discomforted spirit to despair in his discomfort, as it followeth marvellously in the next verse.
This whole night in discomfort of the spirit, declareth two notable things.1 First, howe earnestly God is angrie in déede with sinne, that putteth man to such long paine for it. And the next, howe gratious a God he is, that will not yet suffer the discomforted spirite to despaire in his discomfort, as it followeth meruellously in the next verse.
- 1Two things to be noted.Two thinges to be noted.
3 When I am in heaviness I will think upon God: when my heart is vexed I will complain. Sela.
3 When I am in heauinesse I wil thinke vpon God: when my heart is vexed I will complaine. Sela.
Whilst Asaph was thus troubled in spirit, he remembered the Lord,1 and called unto him for help. First, out of this verse it is to be considered, that nothing can quiet the comfortless spirit, but GOD alone. But for as much as it seemeth by the parts of this Psalm that followeth, that this verse came in by occasion, rather then to show a full remedy for the Prophets trouble: I will not write what I think thereof, but defer the remedy against trouble to such other verses as follow: because the Prophet said before, that his spirit could take no consolation,