A10933:1934
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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Sermon 79 › Chapter 15 › Part 1: The first part of the Chapter.
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Vers. 4. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middest between two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. 6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? and they answered, Samson the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. 8 And he smote them hip and thigh, with a great slaughter, and he went down, and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Vers. 4. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned taile to taile, and put a firebrand in the middest betweene two tailes. 5 And when hee had set the brands on fire, hee let them goe into the standing corne of the Philistims, and burnt vp both the shockes, and also the standing corne, with the vineyards and oliues. 6 Then the Philistims said, Who hath done this? and they answered, Samson the sonne in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and giuen her to his companion. And the Philistims came vp, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said vnto them, Though ye haue done this, yet will I be auenged of you, and after that I will cease. 8 And he smote them hip and thigh, with a great slaughter, and hee went downe, and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.
Samson having gotten occasion to set upon the Philistines, the holy story in these five verses showeth how he used it, that is to say, these two 1ways: first in spoiling their commodities, their vines and olive trees, and burning up their corn; and then in taking away the lives of many of them also. The first of these two vexings of them is set down in these two first verses, and he did it in this manner. He got three hundred foxes (which abounded in those places) and the tails of them he bound together, and put firebrands in the middest of them, and sent them into the corn of the Philistines, which then was ripe, and burned up heaps or ricks of corn gathered in, and that which was standing also.