A10933:1905
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.
Oh what occasion doth the common sort take to recompense evil for evil? They then show themselves in their kind and colours, when they can hit them home, who have stood in their light never so little, and they love to talk and glory of it, when they have done. But to say a word more of them, though it was not expressed in the agreement betwixt Samson and the Philistines, that the meaning of the riddle should be declared by their own finding out, and not by falsehood, or indirect means: yet who doubteth, but that they meant so? In like manner, this departing from innocency ⟨p. 691⟩in bargains and contracts, and going to shifting, and against that which is honest and just, under a pretence that every particular cannot be mentioned and set down, it is a great fault among men, and proves them that deal so, to be far from uprightness: but those that yield of their due rather then strive endlessly, to be odd people.
Oh what occasion doth the common sort take to recompence euill for euill? They then shew themselues in their kinde and colours, when they can hit them home, who haue stood in their light neuer so little, and they loue to talke and glorie of it, when they haue done. But to say a word more of them, though it was not expressed in the agreement betwixt Samson and the Philistims, that the meaning of the riddle should be declared by their owne finding out, and not by falsehood, or indirect meanes: yet who doubteth, but that they meant so? In like manner, this departing from innocencie ⟨p. 691⟩in bargaines and contracts, and going to shifting, and against that which is honest and iust, vnder a pretence that euery particular cannot be mentioned and set downe, it is a great fault among men, and proues them that deale so, to bee farre from vprightnes: but those that yeeld of their due rather then striue endlesly, to be odde people.
But to pass from this, and to come to another point, namely of Samsons 1