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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.
The holy story mentioneth further both generally in this verse, how Judah had fought against the Canaanites that dwelt in the mountain, and toward 1the South, and in the low country, and more particularly against them that dwelt in Hebron, and so, describeth that city by another name that was given it in former times, that is, Kiriath-arba, or the city of one Arba, who 2was a Giant, and the father of Anak, which Anak having three sons, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, Judah slew them there. These Anakims so called of their father, were mighty, tall and strong, as appeareth by many other Scriptures, so by that which describeth Goliath of Gath, by the shaft of his 3spear, that it was like a weavers beam, and that, which speaketh of the spies that went to view the land of Canaan; who returning, feared the people with the report of their stature, saying, that they themselves were but as grasshoppers to them. 4These giantlike men therefore, and those which were about and under them, being taken away, what a benefit must it needs be to the children of Israel? Now though these were properly called Anakims and Giants, and that their kind and posterity remain not now to vex faithful Christians, as they did then Gods Church, yet as there have been many kinds of enemies, so there are, and always shall be, which shall do the same to the people of God, being cruel and scornful contemners of the humble and innocent, that they did to the Israelites: who make their lives unpleasant, with grievous burdens, which they lay upon them, and deadly fear that they hold them in, and if they take not their life away from them also, yet they make it wearisome to them, so that many of them devour themselves, these therefore may well be called Giants.
The holy story mentioneth further both generally in this verse, how Iudah had fought against the Canaanites that dwelt in the mountaine, and toward 1the South, and in the low country, and more particularly against them that dwelt in Hebron, and so, discribeth that citie by another name that was giuen it in former times, that is, Kiriath-arba, or the citie of one Arba, who