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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundered, and thine arrows went abroad.
17 The clouds powred out water, the aire thundered, and thine arrowes went abroad.
1The Prophet remembereth the marvellous inundation and drowning of the world, in the days of Noah, that drowned all the world for sin: saving such as were in the Ark or Ship with Noah. And he remembereth also the horrible thunder that ⟨p. 128⟩was heard of the people,2 when God gave his law unto them upon mount Sinai.3 Likewise, he calleth to remembrance the plagues of Egypt,4 wherewithal God punished Pharaoh,5 his people, and the whole land: which pains and plagues he calleth (after the phrase of the scripture) arrows and darts. These remembrances may be comforts to the hearers, and to the readers, two manner of ways. First, in this, that God (when he punisheth) punisheth justly: as he did the whole world for sin.6 Whereof the Prophet gathereth, If sin justly merited, do trouble all the generation of man: it is no great marvel, though sin trouble me, that am but one man, and a vile sinner. If sin brought all flesh unto death, saving those that were in the ship: is it any marvel, though sin make me to tremble & quake? Again, If God, when he gave the law of Moses, and to the people, spake out of thunder, declaring what a thing it was, to transgress that law, in so much, that all the people were afraid to hear the Lord speak,