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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.
The punishment is bondage, and as the former generation was to the 1King of Aram, so now they were in bondage to the Moabites: the time that it continued, was more then double in respect of the former, even eighteen years. The people that now were brought into bondage, though they were neither all that were in the former calamity, nor they only, yet the rest who were grown up at this time, had seen the works of God, and received the religion of their fathers; and therefore they smarted justly with the rest, with whom they had sinned. By them both we learn, that they 2provide ill for themselves, who make slight use of Gods former corrections for sin, and that thereby they bring and pull down upon themselves greater judgements. As Christ said to the man that was healed, Go thy way 3and sin no more, left a worse thing befall thee. So he threatened in Leviticus, 4that if they did not amend by the former punishments, he would add seven times more. And did not Pharaoh find it, who for his mocking of God, and hardening his heart against him, when he confessed that God had been just in sending upon him so grievous judgements at the first, provoked him to send many more upon him afterwards?
The punishment is bondage, and as the former generation was to the 1King of Aram, so now they were in bondage to the Moabites: the time that it continued, was more then double in respect of the former, euen eighteene yeeres. The people that now were brought into bondage, though they were neither all that were in the former calamity, nor they only, yet the rest who were growne vp at this time, had seene the workes of God, and receiued the religion of their fathers; and therefore they smarted iustly with the rest, with whom they had sinned. By them both wee learne, that they 2prouide ill for themselues, who make slight vse of Gods former corrections for sinne, and that thereby they bring and pull downe vpon themselues greater iudgements. As Christ said to the man that was healed, Goe thy way