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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 18 › Chapter 3 › Part 3: The second part of the Chapter.
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The third thing noted in this first example of this people, is their seeking 1to God; and that in faith and repentance. For when sorrow pinched them by reason of their grievous bondage, and they saw all help of man failed them, they fled to God, acknowledging, that they had now proved by woeful experience, that the worshipping of strange gods had done them little good, my meaning is, they had thereby, and by their other sins, brought those calamities upon themselves. And this their crying to God, was not the action of one man, or family, but of the body of the people in general: and some among them (no doubt) did it soundly and unfeignedly: & therefore ⟨p. 149⟩they repented, though it be not so expressly set down, as in some places; and so we must understand this that is said of them here. It is laid out by this word crying, as the holy Ghost in the first of Samuel, 7. doth set down 2the repentance of the people after the like manner; namely, by their lamenting after God; and in other places the same is done either by some sign, or by some fruit of it; so here by crying. As if it should be said, that by this they testified their sorrow for displeasing God, their believing of pardon, purpose of amendment, and their fervent prayer and confession of their sin, as all these are required by the Lord in true repentance, in Hosea, 14. And 3this is the fruit of calamity in the elect, or rather of Gods goodness towards them, whereby he calleth them to himself by affliction.
The third thing noted in this first example of this people, is their seeking 1to God; and that in faith and repentance. For when sorrow pinched them by reason of their grieuous bondage, and they saw all helpe of man failed them, they fled to God, acknowledging, that they had now proued by wofull experience, that the worshipping of strange gods had done them little good, my meaning is, they had thereby, and by their other sinnes, brought those calamities vpon themselues. And this their crying to God, was not the action of one man, or family, but of the body of the people in generall: and some among them (no doubt) did it soundly and vnfainedly: & therefore