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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.
Vers. 16. And Ehud made him a dagger with two edges, of a cubit length, and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. 17. And he presented the gift unto Eglon King of Moab, and Eglon was a unry fat man. 18. And when he had now presented the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. 19. But he turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to thee O King, who said, keep silence, and all that stood about him went out from him. 20. Then Ehud came to him (and he sat alone in a summer parlour which he had) and Ehud said, I have a message to thee from God. Then he arose out of his throne.
Vers. 16. And Ehud made him a dagger with two edges, of a cubit length, and he did gird it vnder his raiment vpon his right thigh. 17. And he presented the gift vnto Eglon King of Moab, and Eglon was a vnry fat man. 18. And when he had now presented the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. 19. But he turned againe from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I haue a secret errand to thee O King, who said, keepe silence, and all that stood about him went out from him. 20. Then Ehud came to him (and he sat alone in a sommer parlor which he had) and Ehud said, I haue a message to thee from God. Then he arose out of his throne.
Ehud, whom God had given to the people for a deliverer, was by the consent of them, chosen to go with the present to the King of Moab, and he knowing that he was to deliver the people out of his hands, did thus go about it; namely, to provide him a sharp dagger for more speedy expedition thereof, and girded the same under his right thigh, that there might be the less suspicion of that he intended. For though the danger could not be but very great, and he notwithstanding be doubted not of good success from God, yet he cast with himself how many and great the perils were in going about it, that he might the wiselier avoid them. I confess, that this act that they intended to do, namely to kill the King of Moab secretly, and thus to provide for it, and to cover it by the present that he offered him, I confess (I say) that if God had not called him to it, and set him about it, it had been an action (in many respects) odious, and highly to be condemned. But God raising him up to such an end, he was approved of him therein, and that was his encouragement and emboldening, that God had called him to accomplish that work.