A10933:1835
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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These therefore whom I spake of before, if they use well the gifts of God, as David and Samuel did, which they received in their youth, shall (after they have gotten experience) see how God prospereth and enlargeth them to their sound and great rejoicing, and the good of many other, and help to to cast down, and destroy the works of darkness, and of the devil, in places where they be not too strongly resisted and set against, by such as love darkness more then light, because their deeds are evil. But if after they have begun well, and in their younger years given great hope, if (I say) they coming further into the world, shall be dazzled with the deceitful 1beauty of it, as though they had found a better portion then grace, and shall be blindfolded with profit, pleasure, and promotion, so that thereby they cannot do their former works, they shall complain too late (when all these must forsake them) that they were once in the way to do well, if they could have seen it. And all may see, that howsoever they wound out of the devils hands in the first main temptation, wherein they were in danger to be brought to despair, and in the next also, which tended to bring them to presumption; yet that he hath prevailed against them in the third, about the glory of this present world, and thereby hath deceived them.2
These therefore whom I spake of before, if they vse well the gifts of God, as Dauid and Samuel did, which they receiued in their youth, shal (after they haue gotten experience) see how God prospereth and inlargeth them to their sound and great reioycing, and the good of many other, and helpe to to cast downe, and destroy the workes of darknesse, and of the diuell, in places where they bee not too strongly resisted and set against, by such as loue darknesse more then light, because their deeds are euill. But if after they haue begun well, and in their younger yeeres giuen great hope, if (I say) they comming further into the world, shall be dazled with the deceitfull 1beautie of it, as though they had found a better portion then grace, and shall be blindfolded with profit, pleasure, and promotion, so that thereby they cannot do their former workes, they shall complaine too late (when all these must forsake them) that they were once in the way to do well, if they could haue seene it. And all may see, that howsoeuer they woond out of the diuels hands in the first maine temptation, wherein they were in danger to be brought to despaire, and in the next also, which tended to bring them to presumption; yet that he hath preuailed against them in the third, about the glorie of this present world, and thereby hath deceiued them.