A03620:524
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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By these manner of speeches, The lightening shone, and the earth quaked: the Prophet setteth forth the strength and might of Gods power, and willeth men to love him and to fear him: For he is able to defend and preserve his faithful, and to punish and plague the wicked. And the like he saith in the verse following.
By these manner of speaches, The lightening shone, and the earth quaked: the Prophete setteth foorth the strength and might of Gods power, and willeth men to loue him and to feare him: For he is able to defend and preserue his faythfull, and to punish and plague the wicked. And the like he sayth in the verse following.
19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the deep waters: and thy footsteps are not known.
19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy pathes in the deep waters: and thy footsteps are not knowne.
He taketh comfort of this miracle, that GOD brought the Israelites through the red sea,1 in this, that the waters knew the Israelites, & gave place unto them, that they might dry footed go through them. But when king Pharaoh and his people would have followed in the same path, persecuting Gods people, the sea would make no way for him, nor yet show the steppes where the Israelites trod,2 but overwhelmed them in most desperate deaths. So in the seas of temptations,3 such as put their trust in the Lord,4