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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 3 (verses 2-9): ¶The third part.
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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, ⟨p. 97⟩and that a great many of troubles follow, as the Psalm declareth. It showeth, that he was not able to bear the troubles of the mind alone, without the invocation and help of God. Wherefore, before he expresseth by writing all his troubles: he writeth also, how in the middest of them, he did remember and put his trust in the Lord.
Whilest Asaph was thus troubled in spirite, he remembred the Lord,1 and called vnto him for helpe. First, out of this verse it is to be considered, that nothing can quiet the comfortlesse spirit, but GOD alone. But for as much as it séemeth by the partes of this Psalme that followeth, that this verse came in by occasion, rather then to shewe a full remedie for the Prophetes trouble: I will not write what I thinke thereof, but deferre the remedie against trouble to such other verses as follow: bycause the Prophete saide before, that his spirite could take no consolation, ⟨p. 97⟩