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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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5 I have considered the days of old: and the years that be past. 6 In the night I called to remembrance my song, and communed with mine own heart: and my spirit searched diligently.
5 I haue considered the dayes of old: and the yeres that be past. 6 In the night I called to remembrance my song, and communed with mine owne heart: and my spirite searched diligently.
I did (saith the Prophet) in this great discomfort and heaviness, consider with my self the times and worlds of old, wherein the Lord had holpen and delivered my fathers before my time, from such troubles as I am in, and also from greater. And in the night, while I was sleepless, I remembered that many times I lauded and exalted the goodness of God in my Psalms and Hymns, giving him thanks for his great mercy and goodness used towards his Church at all times: and in remembering Gods accustomed clemency and pity, my spirit was much given to debate things.
I did (sayth the Prophet) in this great discomfort and heauinesse, consider with my selfe the times and worlds of old, wherein the Lord had holpen and deliuered my fathers before my time, from such troubles as I am in, and also from greater. And in the night, while I was sléeplesse, I remembred that many times I lauded and exalted the goodnes of God in my Psalms and Hymns, giuing him thanks for his great mercie and goodnes vsed towards his Church at all times: and in remembring Gods accustomed clemencie and pitie, my spirite was much giuen to debate thinges.
Out of these two verses we may note divers doctrines for our consolation in the days of our trouble.1 And the first (after my mind) shall be concerning the two brightness and the two darkness in the word of God. The one brightness is in the letter outwardly, and the other brightness is in the spirit and heart of the reader of the Scripture. This brightness or clarity of the letter is this, when by reading, hearing, or thinking of Gods word: men learn and know that God made all things, and