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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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This doctrine may also more generally be applied to all sins which we shall suffer to lurk and lie in us, they are as thorns in our flesh afterwards. Howsoever in the committing of them, they be as sweet and pleasant baits, yet after, they become as chokes and bitter vomiting unto us. We may not think that their ending will be as their beginning at the committing of them: when Adam should eat the fruit forbidden, oh how the Serpent baited it with pleasantness to the taste, beautifulness to the eye, but unspeakable 1benefit to his fond persuasion, for that it should bring with it the knowledge of good and evil, to make them like unto God himself. But when it was tasted of them, what gall or wormwood was ever like bitter unto it? what thorns, did prick the heart of David, after that he had been deceived 2and overcome with the bait that the devil had laid to catch him withal? what thorns, I say, did prick him after, as in that Psalm made by him 3doth lively and plentifully appear, and in some other which lay out his sorrow, shame, anguish, doubting, and fearing that he had lost all grace, by having his desire in committing of that sin. And it is the best that can be said of those, who (having having had warnings and charges given them, to tie up their unruly affections, and outrageous lusts, and not to dally with ⟨p. 103⟩the sins that they have been allured by) have yet been so far from regarding such instructions, that they have given over themselves unto these defilements. They have, I say, found them thorns, as David did, though few of them have ever had the thorn plucked out of their flesh, to disquiet them no more, as he had; I mean to be brought to sound and kind repentance, as he was.
This doctrine may also more generally be applied to all sinnes which we shall suffer to lurke and lie in vs, they are as thornes in our flesh afterwards. Howsoeuer in the committing of them, they be as sweet and pleasant baits, yet after, they become as choakes and bitter vomiting vnto vs. We may not thinke that their ending will bee as their beginning at the committing of them: when Adam should eate the fruit forbidden, oh how the Serpent baited it with pleasantnesse to the tast, beautifulnes to the eye, but vnspeakeable