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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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THE FIRST SERMON UPON THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF JUDGES.
THE FIRST SERMON VPON THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOKE OF IVDGES.
VERS. 1. And it came to pass after that Joshua was dead, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying: who shall go up for us against the Canaanites, to fight first against them? VERS. 2. And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold I have given the land into his hands.
VERS. 1. And it came to passe after that Ioshua was dead, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying: who shall goe vp for vs against the Canaanites, to fight first against them? VERS. 2. And the Lord said, Iudah shall goe vp: behold I haue giuen the land into his hands.
IN this Chapter two things are chiefly contained, 1(to set down the sum of the Chapter and parts of it together:) The first is the commendation of the tribe of Judah, to the 21. verse: (the cause we shall hear afterward.) The second is the setting down of the sin of the tribes that are mentioned after, in that they slothfully suffered the Canaanites to live by them, and did not expel them, and that is to the end of the Chapter. Judah is commended in a double manner: first for the acts they did now at this time after Joshua's death, and they are to the eight verse: and then for that which that tribe had done before his death in the rest of the verses to the 21.