A10933:1462
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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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.
And if it be an hindering of thy bodily commodity by loss, disease, 1pain, and such like, look that it be to the benefit of thy soul, and that thou have a rich and large supply that way, for so the Lord is wont to deal with his: and that to the end they may see cause to say as David did, it is good for us that we have been afflicted. It was sometime the speech of a virtuous 2and religious gentlewoman, well exercised in Gods nurture, that if there had fallen to her any hard trouble, and heavy cross, (as there did many) she did confidently look for some great blessing more then ordinary, which was for the most part some addition of new grace, or a quickening of the old. And Saint Paul saith the same in other words, that as God sendeth our afflictions 3for our good, even so we should look for them to be to us; which if we did they should not be so unwelcome to us as now they be, nor so discontentedly borne and gone under, as commonly and for the most part they are.
And if it bee an hindering of thy bodily commoditie by losse, disease, 1paine, and such like, looke that it be to the benefit of thy soule, and that thou haue a rich and large supplie that way, for so the Lord is wont to deale with his: and that to the end they may see cause to say as Dauid did, it is good for vs that we haue been afflicted. It was sometime the speech of a vertuous 2and religious gentlewoman, well exercised in Gods nurture, that if there had falne to her any hard trouble, and heauy crosse, (as there did many) she did confidently looke for some great blessing more then ordinarie, which was for the most part some addition of new grace, or a quickning of the old. And Saint Paul saith the same in other words, that as God sendeth our afflictions 3for our good, euen so we should looke for them to be to vs; which if we did they should not be so vnwelcome to vs as now they be, nor so discontentedly borne and gone vnder, as commonly and for the most part they are.