A10933:1073
A commentary upon the whole book of Judges Preached first and delivered in sundry…A commentary vpon the vvhole booke of Iudges Preached first and deliuered in sundrie…
A commentary upon the whole book of Judges Preached first and delivered in sundry lectures; since collected, and diligently perused, and now published. For the benefit generally of all such as desire to grow in faith and repentance, and especially of them, who would more clearly understand and make use of the worthy examples of the saints, recorded in divine history. Penned by Richard Rogers preacher of Gods word at Wethersfield in Essex.A commentary vpon the vvhole booke of Iudges Preached first and deliuered in sundrie lectures; since collected, and diligently perused, and now published. For the benefit generally of all such as desire to grow in faith and repentance, and especially of them, who would more cleerely vnderstand and make vse of the worthie examples of the saints, recorded in diuine history. Penned by Richard Rogers preacher of Gods word at Wethersfield in Essex.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1615
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THE FIFTY TWO SERMON ON THE EIGHTH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF JUDGES.
THE FIFTIE TWO SERMON ON THE EIGHTH CHAPTER OF THE BOOKE OF IVDGES.
Now I will go forward with the rest of the text that remaineth, 1from the eight verse in these words: [And he went thence to Penuel] and so forth, as they are to be read before the last Sermon. Here we may see another discouragement and repulse that Gideon sustained by the men of Penuel: for he being with his soldiers faint and weary, was denied bread not only by them of Succoth, as we have seen, but by the men of Penuel also, as appeareth in this verse. For to them he went in the faintness and weariness of himself and his soldiers, and had the repulse: whereby he might easily have been tempted, and brought to think and fear, that God did not approve of his journey, but did set himself against him. For so 2we are wont to conclude by the ill success we have even in good attempts, especially when the lets be forcible, many and divers, and one in the neck of another: as Job's afflictions were, when among hard messages brought to him of other calamities that were befallen him, this was one that the fire ⟨p. 398⟩of God was fallen from heaven, and had burnt up the sheep and the servants, as if God had been against him. So that we may learn by this, that things sometime may go so contrary to our desire, liking, and expectation, and that in duties which God requireth, and will have to be done of us, as if he were not with us, but against us, yea as if he would cross us in them of set purpose. Our duty here is to look what God bids us do, as the man of God sent from Judah should have done, who was drawn by the old Prophet of Bethel contrary to Gods commandment, to eat there. But indeed the case is not alway alike, when such difficulties befall us: for sometime we 3