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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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Now, this one thing more I will mark in this verse, and no more, because it is more fully used by the Prophet for the comfort of discomforted spirits in the verses that follow.
Nowe, this one thing more I will marke in this verse, and no more, bycause it is more fully vsed by the Prophete for the comfort of discomforted spirits in the verses that followe.
I said, there was two kinds of consolations in the word of God.1 The one outward in the face and lesson of the letter: and the other inward, in the understanding and feeling of the spirit. And of this division must great heed be taken. For it is not every man that readeth and heareth, that Christ dyed for the remission of sin, that shall have the consolation of the redemption promised in Christs blood. For we see and read, (God give us grace to learn it,) that Adam caused his sons to hear of his own fall in Paradise, and the redemption of his fall in the blood of Christ to come,2 as Abel his younger son ⟨p. 98⟩right well perceived: yet did Cain, hearing the same consolation, perish in his sin. There was consolation and rest promised unto all them that came out of Egypt: but none took the benefit thereof, but Joshua and Caleb. There was in the outward letter promised consolation unto all Abraham's children:3 but none received the commodity thereof, but such as in spirit followed the faith of Abraham. The scripture saith in the letter, that GOD would all men to be saved: yet we see such as follow not the spirit offered,4 be damned. God by his word in the time of holy and blessed King Edward the sixth, offered consolation unto all this realm: yet none shall enjoy it, but such as in their spirits have learned, kept, and do follow the word of consolation. So our Saviour Christ in S. Matthew doth say: Not every man that calleth me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of God: but he that followeth in Christ Gods commandments.