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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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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 Sun also stood still in the middest of the heaven, and hasted not to go down for a whole day: and this was to the end it might the longer 1give light, and be an help to Joshua and the people to avenge their enemies. And (to add this one thing to the former,) I affirm, that there are not the meanest nor basest creatures, but they are harnessed as men of war, to fight in the Lords cause, and at his commandment, against the wicked, as the many plagues cast upon Pharaoh, I mean the lice, flies, grasshoppers, 2and the like, even they (I say) may testify. So that in this one respect, in that neither the friends of the wicked shall be faithful to them, when God will otherwise have it; and namely when they are unfaithful to him, but that he himself and his creature shall be armed against them, what can be said less then this, even woe be unto them. But infinite are the other plagues that hang over them, and do oft times meet with, and take hold of them: besides that they are every hour in danger, when some kind of fearful death or other shall sweep them away to carry them to their last and uttermost ruin. So that, as I note some of the woeful judgements that hang over them, or be already upon them; so if there were many more particulars set down as they might be, with the intolerable and most terrible pains of the damned, one would think there were small cause, why any should flock 3to their company, or long and desire to be of them, and to taste of their dainties. And yet they are at this day, (which is so much the more to be bewailed,) as the sand of the sea, and swarm in all places; that for my part (I say) when I cannot but know it to be so, and think upon it, and what little hope there is to reclaim the most of them; Oh that mine eyes were a fountain of 4tears, that I might weep bitterly for the woe and loss of so many people. If it seem strange which hath been said of the multitudes of them that shall perish, 5the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Though Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet but a remnant shall be saved. And although I censure not men by the mischances as they are called, that befall them (but are indeed the just judgements of God upon them) sithence neither all wicked men are thus punished, nor all thus handled are wicked men: