A10933:631
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. 4. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departed out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens rained, the clouds also dropped water. 5. The mountains melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel. 6. In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the high ways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through by ways. 7 The towns were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, till I Debora came up, who rose up a mother in Israel.
Vers. 4. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departed out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens rained, the clouds also dropped water. 5. The mountaines melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel. 6. In the daies of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the daies of Iael, the high waies were vnoccupied, and the trauellers walked through by waies. 7 The townes were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, till I Debora came vp, who rose vp a mother in Israel.
IN the first of these two verses, which also contain the beginning of their 1song, Debora setteth down the Lords great mercy in one example to her forefathers the people of Israel, which had been showed long before: in the latter two, she maketh mention of his goodness toward them at that very time present. In the great deliverance mentioned in the former chapter, but more particularly to speak of both, and to begin with the first in the fourth and fifth verses, we are to know, that this story mentioned by her, containeth the acts that were done by the Lord, after he brought the people of Israel beyond mount Seir, when Israel (38. years after their going out of Egypt into the desert) were come near to the land of Canaan: namely, how wonderfully the Lord took part with his people there, and joined himself unto them against their enemies. For he going with them in a pillar of fire and a cloud, did terrify their enemies the Amorites in such wise, that though the Israelites were unexperienced in war, and strangers there, and were weak and unfit also for such work, yet their enemies could not resist them: and not only so, but she saith, that the Lord cast such a fear upon them, as if the earth had trembled, and great storms and tempests had been cast down from the clouds, and as if the mountains had melted, and been shaken. By these allegorical speeches she describeth the fear that was smitten into the Amorites at Israels coming near them, when the Lord brought them out of Egypt. And further she addeth to the same end, that even as mount Sinai (for so it must be understood, though the word (like as) be not expressed) at the Lords coming down upon it, was shaken and moved; so did the nations at the coming of Israel fear, and were terrified.