A10933:1606
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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Oh they look to live long, they are not in the case of this maid, who was within two months of her dying day, and applied them wholly to fit her for death; but they are made drunk with an unsatiable desire of living still; and therefore ⟨p. 587⟩tell not them of such sad unwelcome matters. But oh fools! are they not suddenly taken (and as unprovided) within few days and hours of their death, as they were many years before? Therefore to leave them: when the Lord at any time justly occasioneth us to be sorrowful and pensive, let us beware of blockishness (which commonly accompanieth them, who in in their mirth think of nothing but jollity) and say we every one thus to our selves: Now the Lord calls me home to the practise of a duty, (which indeed ought to be oft in use) to meditate of my estate, to unburden my mind and soul of those manifold, needless and noisome thoughts and affections, which I have overladen my self a long time withal: now the Lord will have me bent to search out my errors, corruptions, and disorders of hart and life, and going aside to ease my stomach of them, confess, loath, renounce and ask pardon of them. Now the Lord will have me to pray, that his spirit may be restored to me in greater measure, that I may return with more liberty to his service, and beware that I be not again surfeited, with that which now I have vomited up, as the world, pleasures, vain desires, vile and loathsome lusts. This is a good use indeed of heaviness: the 1house of such mourning, is better than the house of feasting. And to this end, oh it were to be wished, that damsels as well as other, living in these days, would set forth themselves to the world, not in pride, boldness, niceness and curiosity of fashions, but in modesty, grace and wisdom (as this maiden here did) which were another manner of spectacle, then to see many golden rings in a swines snout.
Oh they look to liue long, they are not in the case of this maide, who was within two moneths of her dying day, and applied them wholly to fit her for death; but they are made drunke with an vnsatiable desire of liuing still; and therefore ⟨p. 587⟩tell not them of such sad vnwelcome matters. But oh fooles! are they not suddenly taken (and as vnprouided) within few daies and houres of their death, as they were many yeeres before? Therefore to leaue them: when the Lord at any time iustly occasioneth vs to be sorrowfull and pensiue, let vs beware of blockishnesse (which commonly accompanieth them, who in in their mirth thinke of nothing but iollitie) and say wee euery one thus to our selues: Now the Lord calles me home to the practise of a dutie, (which indeed ought to be oft in vse) to meditate of my estate, to vnburden my mind and soule of those manifold, needlesse and noysome thoughts and affections, which I haue ouerloaden my selfe a long time withall: now the Lord will haue me bent to search out my errors, corruptions, and disorders of hart and life, and going aside to ease my stomack of them, confesse, loath, renounce and aske pardon of them. Now the Lord will haue me to pray, that his spirit may be restored to me in greater measure, that I may returne with more libertie to his seruice, and beware that I be not againe surfeited, with that which now I haue vomited vp, as the world, pleasures, vaine desires, vile and loathsome lusts. This is a good vse indeed of heauinesse: the