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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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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.
To the next objection, that he gave his daughter through his rash offer to 1one of his own flesh, who could not marry her by the law of God, being his brother, and therefore uncle to her: to this I say that, he was not his younger brother, to whom he gave her, I mean Othniel, but his kinsman, and the least every way among his brethren, the children of his father, both in ⟨p. 41⟩years, authority, and wealth. But ye will object, that the text calleth him his brother: I answer, that Christs kinsmen were called his brethren, and yet were not so; and all Divines almost grant, that Mary, the mother of our Saviour had no more children then Christ only; and therefore they expound those places, Mat. 13. & 12. of his kinsmen and kinswomen. And that this the 2Hebrew word, here used, [Greek or Hebrew] which properly signifieth a natural brother, is put as usually for a kinsman also, and the posterity of brethren, the Scripture is clear, and plentiful in showing it. Read for Example, Levit. 25. 3where the word brethren signifieth the children of brethren: Over your brethren, 4the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with cruelty. And numb. 32. shall your brethren the children of Israel go to war, and ye tarry here? In both places, by brethren, the Scripture meaneth the posterity and children of the 12. sons of Jacob, and so many other Scriptures do. And so to return, if this Othniel and Achsah had been within the degrees forbidden, that he might not have married her, but it had been against the commandment of God, who doubteth, but that he would have been better advised, and that he meant not in offering her to do any thing that should offend God? I say therefore if either Othniel, or any other winning the city, could not lawfully have married her, Caleb would have supplied his offer some other way to the contentment of the party.