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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
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For if God open our eyes once, to see them as they are to be seen, and as they may be felt, with the shame, foulness, baseness, sottishness in the 1committing of them, and the danger that they bring; we judge even so of them, as well as of the rest.. For what horror doth adultery breed, when it is thought of after the committing? it is as an arrow shot through the liver? But of that, ye will say, there is no doubt: so what is anger, when it is past, to him that offended by it but shame, and so I may say of all other. A view hereof, may be taken in Saul, when God pursued him for his sin, and made him cry out, saying: What shall I do? for God hath forsaken me, 2and speaketh no more to me. And what torment (think we) felt Judas, when of himself he said, I have sinned in betraying the innocent blood? And when his sin so wounded his conscience, that the halter made an end of his life? And Adams transgression also, which was divers from both the other, what wrought it upon him? was he not so terrified for it, that he fled from Gods presence as far as he could, to hide himself in the thicket 3among the trees? And if I should reckon up an hundred more, who all sinned in a divers manner, one from the other; which of them hath not abhorred his own, as if no other had been so vile, when God makes him see it. Therefore the Martyrs, rather then they would commit sin against their 4conscience, and feel the terror of it, chose to lose their lives rather, as we may read plentifully in the book of Monuments. True it is, men do not always see, nor feel this, neither can they be brought to be moved and astonished for their sin, except they be by the Lords strong hand thus forced and urged. But by this (to end the matter in hand, we may judge what shall be the horror of the Judgement day it self, when all such things shall fully be made manifest. And for use of all this, let us learn, seriously to have all sin in horror and detestation, yea even then, when it puts on an harlots face, and hath most force to deceive us; lest that which we hear, strike and wound us at the heart, when we look for no such thing, but shall find it most deadly unwelcome unto us.