A10933:1471
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.
For all this hardness that Jephthah sustained at their hands, yet this is worth the noting, that God provided for him in a strange country, where he was able to maintain divers that resorted to him, and to frame them to fight against the enemies of God. And thus the Scripture is verified, that when 1father and mother forsake, the Lord taketh up. As he dealt with Joseph, Esther, Mordecai, and many others. And this protection of his, if it reached only to the maintaining of such needy and distressed persons in their bodily necessities, and temporary sorrows, it were much: but to bring them also 2into favour with himself, that in so wicked a world they may be weaned from the defilements of it, and that in better sort then many thousands, who have father and mother to bring them up, this is no less then admirable. Oh therefore what madness is there in them, and how are they to be pitied, who in the multiplicity of dangers and miseries that swarm every where, cling not nor cleave near under Gods wing, where only safety is to be found and enjoyed? And yet where they seek it any other way, they have got that which will not stand by them, if they get any thing, and yet their account is to come.
For all this hardnesse that Iphtah sustained at their hands, yet this is worth the noting, that God prouided for him in a strange countrie, where he was able to maintaine diuers that resorted to him, and to frame them to fight against the enemies of God. And thus the Scripture is verified, that when 1father and mother forsake, the Lord taketh vp. As he dealt with Ioseph, Hester, Mordecay, and many others. And this protection of his, if it reached only to the maintaining of such needy and distressed persons in their bodily necessities, and temporary sorrowes, it were much: but to bring them also 2into fauour with himselfe, that in so wicked a world they may bee weaned from the defilements of it, and that in better sort then many thousands, who haue father and mother to bring them vp, this is no lesse then admirable. Oh therefore what madnesse is there in them, and how are they to be pitied, who in the multiplicitie of dangers and miseries that swarme euery where, cling not nor cleaue neerevnder Gods wing, where only safetie is to be found and enioyed? And yet where they seeke it any other way, they haue got that which will not stand by them, if they get any thing, and yet their account is to come.