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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 17 › Chapter 3 › Part 1: The first part of the Chapter.
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In this verse the nations are reckoned whom the Lord would have to remain in the land, among whom his people the Israelites must dwell: 1read them in the text. By this that they must dwell with these wicked nations, 2we are taught, that it is one of the punishments among many other, which our divers kinds of sin draw upon us, that even because of them we must sometime dwell with the wicked: for though all must have to do with them, (or else they must go out of the world) yet this that I now speak 3of, is another matter. David dwelt among the haters of peace out of the holy 4land: as for the Church of Pergamus, whose habitation was where Satan's throne was; that was Gods trial to them. But the dwelling of Israel in Babylon, and their fathers before them among the Egyptians: and the dwelling of these here mentioned among the Philistines, Canaanites, and Hevites: these habitations (I say) were Gods punishments and curses, even the fruit of their deserts and grievous sins: who vexed them many ways, as if Hornets should have stung them: and because such dwellings are brought upon men by their own provokings of God, and that sundry ways; therefore beside the smart that they sustain by them through outward troubles, they have this added thereunto, that they cannot meekly and quietly bear them, for the wound that they have made in their conscience by their known sins, which is most grievous unto them, seeing they must and cannot but remember, that they justly sustain them. One example of our time I will allege of two persons, a yeoman and his wife (I might bring many) These two dwelling among sundry good neighbours and religions, because they were not like minded to them, because they distasted the Gospel, took a sore pitch against them, without any just cause given them, and thereupon in wilfulness removed their dwelling from them. Their going away was to enjoy better neighbours, and to bring in the world, and the commodities thereof the faster. But (to be short) seeing ye will long (no doubt) to hear the end; so it was, that they enjoyed not that which they sought and went for; for their wealth wasted, and their neighbours, who had never known what it meant, neither had learned to use them neighbourly, dealt roughly with them, and sore vexed and wearied them: upon this, the Lord visited them both, with great sickness, even both of them together.