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…

Now followeth a new revolt of the people of Israel, and this is handled ¹to the 17. verse, wherein the things to be considered are these: to wit, a double repairing and returning by them to God, when he afflicted them by their enemies for their sin in forsaking him. In their first seeking to him, they had the repulse, for their repentance was not sound. In the second, God delivered them, they seeking to him in repentance. In the former note these four things: First their sin, which was a joining to the nations among whom they dwelt, and this in the sixth verse. The second is Gods punishing them even by those, whom they joined with in Idolatry: which is showed in the next three verses. The third point is their crying to God: and lastly, the fruit thereof, in the tenth verse, and so forward. The fruit was divers: for first God denied to deliver them, to the fifteenth verse. But at the second crying of the people to God, he delivered them: which is set down in the next two verses unto the seventeenth. Now let these things be looked into more particularly. To return therefore to the sixth verse, ²and to begin with the peoples sin, it is said, after the death of these two Judges, in whose days they had enjoyed peace five and forty years, that the people fell again to provoke God, as we have heard their fathers did. And how? by committing Idolatry after the manner of the seven nations, that are here mentioned. For both that was liking to the flesh, and besides, they thought those nations that did so, lived in more abundance, and in more pleasure, then themselves did; for many delights to tickle the flesh forward they adjoined to their false worship, to draw away their hearts from serving the true God aright, whom, it is said here, that they forsook. Thus much for the sum of this verse, and therein of their sin. And here are divers things to be considered.

NOw followeth a new reuolt of the people of Israel, and this is handled ¹to the 17. verse, wherein the things to bee considered are these: to wit, a double repairing and returning by them to God, when hee afflicted them by their enemies for their sin in forsaking him. In their first seeking to him, they had the repulse, for their repentance was not sound. In the second, God deliuered them, they seeking to him in repentance. In the former note these foure things: First their sinne, which was a ioyning to the nations among whom they dwelt, and this in the sixth verse. The second is Gods punishing them euen by those, whom they ioyned with in Idolatrie: which is snewed in the next three verses. The third point is their crying to God: and lastly, the fruite thereof, in the tenth verse, and so forward. The fruite was diuers: for first God denied to deliuer them, to the fifteenth verse. But at the second crying of the people to God, hee deliuered them: which is set downe in the next two verses vnto the seuenteenth. Now let these things be looked into more particularly. To returne therefore to the sixth verse,