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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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Whether he wrote the Psalm of his own sorrows and troubles, or of the sorrows and troubles of the Israelites, it maketh no matter: let every man in that case use his own judgment, so that he mark the doctrine of the Psalm.
Whether he wrote the Psalme of his own sorrowes and troubles, or of the sorrows and troubles of the Israelits, it maketh no matter: let euery man in that case vse his owne iudgment, so that he mark the doctrine of the Psalme.
There is to be noted of these verses also this doctrine, that what soever trouble the spirit was brought unto, whatsoever watch had taken his eyes, & what soever vehemency of disease had taken his speech ⟨p. 104⟩from him: yet under all these crosses he cursed not God, nor grudged against his plagues, but as a man contented, gave himself to record and to call to memory, how God was wont to be unto men afflicted, and took account how in times past he had spent his years, and found that he had made certain Psalms or Hymns to the glory of God, and to the praise of his holy name. Of the which we learn not only patience in the time of trouble and persecution, but also how to spend our youth and transitory life in doing or making some things, that may be records and remembrances when we be gone, that we lived here to serve God, and not to serve our selves. And it is a great help and no small consolation for a man that is in trouble & heaviness, to think that he in his life before sought the glory of God: & that testimony of conscience is more worth in the time of trouble, then all other mens deeds for him. Not in that his seeking Gods glory & setting forth of the same, can be his gage and ransom before God: but because it is a very testimony, that God once loved him, and gave him of his blessed spirit, to indite something to Gods praise and honour. And as godly Psalms and virtuous Hymns, be testimonies of a virtuous spirit: so be wanton and adulterous ballads, records of a vicious and sinful spirit. And as the remembrance of good & virtuous works in the time of sickness and trouble, be joyful and comfortable: so is the remembrance of wicked doings sorrowful and painful.