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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 7 › Chapter 1 › Part 2: The second part of the Chapter.
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In this verse, where it is said that the spies met this man coming out of 1the city (for what cause he went it is not expressed; somewhat is to be noted by occasion of the man, and somewhat from the spies. By the man first, 2going in his simplicity, out of the city, (whither to save his life, or upon some other necessary occasion,) meeting with these spies, and falling into such a strait thereby, that either he must loose his life, or betray the city, (for the spies said to him, show us the way into the city, and we will show thee mercy.) We may see what straits and difficulties we meet with, be subject to, and in danger of, in this life: for that peril which we neither fear nor once think of, may befall us, even to the hazarding of our lives, much more of our undoing, or the loss of the best of Gods blessings that we enjoy, as wife, children, goods, &c. In the story of the French Massacres we read, that by the popish faction, a whole assembly of Protestants were slain at the Sermon. The Shunamites child went into the field in the morning well, but ⟨p. 62⟩3died at noon. The widow of one of the children of the Prophets, who lived 4in good estate for a great part of her husbands time, yet through the debt he was in at his death, she was brought into that strait, that her two sons must be sold to pay the debt, and carried away from her, perhaps to be brought up by Idolaters in an idolatrous land; and she knew no other for a time, though God provided better for her. Job his children in the middest of their merry makings, were destroyed by the fall of the house, and he himself 5lost all at once, and his body was filled with scabs and sores. Samaria was besieged, and the danger so great, that the king thereof was resolved, and 6looked for no other, but that he and all that he had, must be at the pleasure of another man. And Jerusalem was so overwhelmed with griefs, that she