A10933:1341
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.
What dislike and weariness hath there been one of another? what alienating of affection, crossing one the other, chiding, railing and reviling, separating from bed and board, (while yet they must needs live together) and afterward an utter casting off the one the other? I speak not this of the heaviness which the Lords chastisements meeting and taking hold of them, do raise in them; to the which, all, even the best are subject, wherein they both should and have promised to be companions, and one to help the other ⟨p. 497⟩to bear the burden: which kind of behaviour would preserve their love, as it doth betwixt some others: I speak not (I say) of these corrections of the Lord, but of the mischief that their evil and corrupt hearts, false, raging, proud, wilful and inconstant, have wrought betwixt them, they being disguised, and nothing like the persons they seemed to be at their first meeting. Oh therefore if towards men we bewray this disease, then how much more is it to be feared in professing our repentance to God, it being secret and a thing hid from men? and in coming to the word and sacraments, what need have we of this uprightness?
What dislike and wearines hath there been one of another? what alienating of affection, crossing one the other, chiding, railing and reuiling, separating from bed and board, (while yet they must needs liue together) and afterward an vtter casting off the one the other? I speake not this of the heauinesse which the Lords chastisements meeting and taking hold of them, doe raise in them; to the which, all, euen the best are subiect, wherein they both should and haue promised to be companions, and one to helpe the other ⟨p. 497⟩to beare the burden: which kind of behauiour would preserue their loue, as it doth betwixt some others: I speake not (I say) of these corrections of the Lord, but of the mischiefe that their euill and corrupt hearts, false, raging, proud, wilfull and inconstant, haue wrought betwixt them, they being disguised, and nothing like the persons they seemed to bee at their first meeting. Oh therefore if towards men wee bewray this disease, then how much more is it to be feared in professing our repentance to God, it being secret and a thing hid from men? and in comming to the word and sacraments, what need haue we of this vprightnesse?