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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 4 (verses 10-20): ¶The fourth part.
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15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people, even the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Sela.
15 Thou hast mightily deliuered thy people, euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph. Sela.
Of this verse we learn two consolations. The one, that every Christian troubled, may see his elders, and also his betters troubled:1 not that it is a comfort to a man that is afflicted, to see another in trouble: but to mark that God loved none so well, but in this world he sent trouble unto,2 and excepted not his deer son. Wherefore, it is a consolation to the afflicted, to be made like unto the godly fathers, (that were before his time) by tribulation: and to remember, that although all Christian men be not brought under the captivity of Pharaoh in Egypt,3 nor under Nabuchodonozer in Babylon: yet there is an Egypt and a Babylon for every Christian member: that is to say, the captivity of sin, the bondage of the flesh, the severity of the law, the danger of ⟨image 121⟩the world, the enmity of Infidels, the treason of dissembling friends, the wickedness of civil & devilish ordinances, the dissimulation of hypocrites, the perjury of inconstant persons, the breach of faithful promises, the inconstancy of the weak, the cruelty of Papists, the love of man, & the hatred of God, with many others: as the ignorance of Gods laws, rebellion of the heart against it, frowardness of the will to consent unto it, diffidence & mistrust of Gods mercy, boldness to sin in the time of health, faintness and mistrust of the remission thereof in sickness, love of vice and sin, hatred of virtue and godliness, sudden falling from grace, slow rising unto it again, loathsomeness to die mortally, readiness to live wickedly, sorrowfulness to forsake this world, great delight to use it evil whiles we have it, loth to seek heavenly things, glad to seek earthly things, nothing feeling the poverty and trouble of the soul, always grudging at the poverty and trouble of the body, with innumerable other captivities that every Christian is entangled withal, as every man may judge by his own life.