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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
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.
for when we are threatened punishment for the same, or when we shall be arraigned, we shall easily be found guilty, and the Lord shall be justified, and then all our fair shows must vanish, leaving us in the briers.
for when wee are threatened punishment for the same, or when we shall be arraigned, we shall easily be found guilty, and the Lord shall be iustified, and then all our faire shewes must vanish, leauing vs in the briers.
Thus we have heard the people reproved for their sin: now the threatening 1of the punishment followeth, which is sharp and sore; and is set down in three points. The first is, that God would not expel their enemies, as he had upon condition promised: the second, that their remaining still in the land should be as thorns in their sides: the third, their gods should be as a snare to catch them in, to their destruction.
Thus we haue heard the people reproued for their sin: now the threatning 1of the punishment followeth, which is sharpe and sore; and is set down in three points. The first is, that God would not expell their enemies, as hee had vpon condition promised: the second, that their remaining still in the land should be as thornes in their sides: the third, their gods should bee as a snare to catch them in, to their destruction.
- 1Vers 3. The sense.
And for the first of these punishments, namely, that God should not expel