1 a Because God promised to deliuer them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, {Isa. 48,11}, therefore they grounde their praier vpon this promes.
1 ! A praier of the faithful oppressed by idolatrous tyrants against whome they desire that God would succour them,
2 b When the wicked se that God accomplisheth not his promes, as thei imagine, thei thinke there is no God.
4 d Seing that nether the matter, nor the forme can commend the idoles, it followeth that there is nothing, why thei shulde be estemed.
7 e He sheweth what great vanitie it is to aske helpe of them, which not onley haue no helpe in them, but lacke sense and reason.
9 ! Trusting moste constantly that God wolde preserue them in this their nede, seing that he hathe adopted and receiued them to his fauour.
10 g For thei were appointed by God as instructers & teachers of faith and religion for others to followe.
16 k And thei declare ynough his sufficiencie, for the worlde serueth him nothing, but to shewe his fatherlie care toward men.
17 l Thogh the dead set forthe Gods glory, yet he meaneth here, that thei praise him not in his Church and Congregacion.