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.

❧A table declaring as well the generall as the speciall contentes of this whole Booke.

¶The figures note the number of the leafe. A. the first side. B. the second.

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  • ❧The argument of the 23. Psalme. fol. 9. A.
  • ¶Of this Psalme, there are seuen partes. ibid. B.
    • 1 Who it is that hath the cure and charge of mans life and saluation. 10. A.
    • 2 Wherein the life and saluation of man consisteth. 14. B.
    • 3 How a man is brought to the knowledge of life and salua∣tion: which part sheweth, what man is of himselfe, and how he is brought into his life, and to feede in the pleasaunt pastures of Gods word. 19. B.
    • 4 Wherefore man is brought to life and saluation. 23. B.
    • 5 What trouble may happen to such, as God giueth life and saluation vnto. 25. B.
    • 6 Whereby the troubles of Gods elect be ouercome. 31. A.
    • 7 What the end of Gods troubled people shall be. 41. B.
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  • ❧The Argument of the 62 Psalme. 43. A.
  • ¶Of this Psalme there are two generall partes, and sixe particular. ibid. A. & B.
  • ¶The first generall part, conteyning foure particular partes.
  • 1 How that the fauour of God, and his helpe, is able to re∣medie all aduersities. 43. A.
  • ¶The second generall part conteyning two particular partes.
  • 2 How that the fauour of man, and his helpe, is able to re∣dresse no aduersities. 43. A.
  • ¶A breefe paraphrase vppon the whole Psalme. 44. B.
  • ¶The sixe particular partes as they followe in their order and place.
    • 1 What is to be done by the Christian man that is affli∣cted. 45. A.
    • 2 Why the troubled person seeketh health of God. 51. A.
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    • 3 How the persequuters of the innocent shall soudenly pe∣rishe. 58. A.
    • 4 Why trouble is patiently to be borne, and faithfully to be beleeued, that God can and will remedie it. 63. B.
    • 5 How mans power is not to be trusted vnto. 66. B.
    • 6 How that God hath promised to helpe the afflicted. 69. A.
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  • ❧The Argument of the 73. Psalme. 70. A.
  • ¶A Paraphrase vppon the whole Psalme. Fol. 70. 71. 72. 73.
  • ¶Of this Psalme there are eight partes. 74.
    • 1 That God loueth the good, although he punisheth them. 75. A.
    • 2 How weake and fraile a thing the nature of man is. 77. B
    • 3 Wherein the felicitie of wicked men consisteth, &c. 80. A
    • 4 How fraile, brittle, and weake a thing man is, &c. 84. B
    • 5 How some men repeat their well doings, &c. 85 A
    • 6 How greate a daunger it is, temerously to iudge of God, &c. 85. B
    • 7 That mans reason is but ignorant and beastlie in conside∣ring of Gods workes, &c. 86. A
    • 8 The multitude & number of Gods consolations, &c. 86. B
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  • ❧The Argument of the 77. Psalme. 87 A.
  • ¶Of this Psalme there are foure partes. 87. A & B.
    • 1 In whome a man shoulde put his trust, and to whome he should resorte in the dayes of sickenesse, troubles, and aduer∣sities. 87. B.
    • 2 How a man should vse him selfe towardes him, in whome he putteth his trust in the time of trouble. 89. B
    • 3 What great and perillous daungers, the man that is trou∣bled shall suffer, for the time of his trouble. 93. A
    • 4 How a man taketh consolation in the time of his trou∣ble. 113. B
  • ¶Other pointes of Christian doctrine are referred to the consideration of the reader.

FINIS.