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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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Thus doth God deal with vile and unconscionable men, that he will set (as I say) not their friends only, but even the host of heaven, and the creatures of the earth against them. Thus Saul, when he had forsook the Lord, 1could neither have his daughter faithful unto him, to send David his enemy to him, neither could he have any Prophet of God to speak to him in his greatest necessity and straits, as his own words do testify, he complaining thus; I am in distress, for God is departed from me, and speaketh no more to me by Prophets, &c. Neither could Sennacherib have his sons trusty to 2him, but was slain of them, by whom he ought by nature to have been defended: yea and they did it in the Temple, while he was worshipping Nishroch his god, in whom he trusted, and looked always for help from him, and notwithstanding he preferred him before the true and living God; yet even then he was disappointed. Thus Ammon also and Jezebel were not secure 3from their own servants. And if it be thus done to the mighty; how much more then to the mean, who have less help to stand by him? And not only their best helps fail and deceive them, but, as I said, all things are against them. Thus hailstones helped Gods people to destroy their enemies the Canaanites: The Lord (saith the holy story) cast down great stones 4from heaven upon them, and there were more that died of the hailstones, then they whom the children of Israel slue with the sword. So the waters, even the river Kishon devoured this host of Sisera. So Abimelech was slain with a piece of a millstone. Absalom by an oak catching hold of his long hair, (his ornament) ⟨p. 224⟩5Chorah swallowed up of the earth. So a wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand 6Aramites that escaped the battle.
Thus doth God deale with vile and vnconscionable men, that he will set (as I say) not their friends onely, but euen the host of heauen, and the creatures of the earth against them. Thus Saul, when he had forsaked the Lord,