A10933:1222
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here we see, when one sin is intended of a man to be committed, it goeth 1not alone, but draweth with it many other, as companions to it. For neither can it be brought to pass without the help of other, neither can a man take pleasure in it without the company of other sins. He seeks to be King, and how many sins doth he adjoin, to the effecting of it? As he here used fraud, flattery, and cozenage, and rose up, and drew after him a band of seditious hang-bies; he slew his brethren; and when he was made King, what contention did he cause among them?
Here we see, when one sinne is intended of a man to be committed, it goeth 1not alone, but draweth with it many other, as companions to it. For neither can it be brought to passe without the helpe of other, neither can a man take pleasure in it without the company of other sinnes. He seekes to be King, and how many sinnes doth he adioyne, to the effecting of it? As he here vsed fraud, flatterie, and cousonage, and rose vp, and drew after him a band of seditious hang-bies; he slew his brethren; and when he was made King, what contention did he cause among them?
- 1Doct. 1.
It is too manifest, that sin is no solitary bird, nor is ever seen out of 1company. Even as S. Paul teacheth to the Romans, how strife carrieth envying with it; and gluttony draweth drunkenness; and chambering, wantonness. And this is the more to be marked, because wicked persons allege for themselves, when they are reproved for their faults, that all men are sinners, yea some sin grossly in many kinds, and for themselves, they say, they hope, if they have done amiss, yet they may be borne with, seeing it is but one trespass: and further they will say, every one for himself, Such a man hath this blemish, and such a one that: all have some one or other, and so may I have, and what then? But to this it is to be answered, where one chief sin is committed, there are many other as handmaids to accompany it. As in the sin of Achan, David, Ananias and Sapphira, with many others, is to be seen. Therefore if we think it be a shame for us, to be charged