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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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For God suffereth and appointeth his to fight and make war with sin, and with all troubles and sorrows that sin bringeth with it: but God will never permit his, to be deadly and mortally wounded. It is therefore expedient that man know who he his greatest foes, & do work him most danger.
For God suffereth and appointeth his to fight and make warre with sinne, and with all troubles and sorrowes that sinne bringeth with it: but God will neuer permit his, to be deadly and mortally wounded. It is therefore expedient that man knowe who he his greatest foes, & do worke him most daunger.
There be divers Psalms, wherein he setteth forth the peril that he was in, as well in his body as in his soul: as when he complaineth of his banishment, amongst not only cruel people, but also ungodly, that sought to take both his mortal life from him, and also his religion and trust that he had in Gods word. Wherefore he compareth them to the Tartarians and Arabians, 1men without pity or religion. And the like doth he afterwards in another Psalm, where as giving thanks for his delivery, he saith, that, sinners froad upon his back, and many times warred against him, and he should have been overthrown,2 if GOD had not holpen him. Where in he speaketh, not only of battle with the sword against the body but also of heresy and false doctrine against the soul. As ye may see how Sennacherib and Julius the Apostate, two Emperors, fought against the people of God, not only to take from them their lives: but also their religion and true honouring of GOD. And of all battles that is the cruellest, and of all enemies the principal, that would take the soul of man from Gods word, & bring it to the word of man. And that persecution & trouble openly against Gods word continued many years, until Christ was preached abroad, & princes made Christians. Then thought the devil his kingdom to have been overthrown, and Christian men might live in Christs religion, without any trouble or war for religion: howbeit at length for sin, ⟨p. 37⟩