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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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Sermon 36 › Chapter 6 › Part 1: The first part of the Chapter.
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The first part of the Chapter.
TO begin with their sin, it appears that they did grievously provoke 1the Lord, as they had sometime before done, as in the third and fourth Chapters it appears, where their punishment was likewise a long time continued upon them. But yet after the death of Debora and Barak, the valiant deliverers of them out of the hands of the Canaanites, they did again depart from the good course wherein they had lived before, and fell again to idolatry, and other sins. This be said of their sin, as may be gathered out of the first verse, and the 25.
TO begin with their sinne, it appeares that they did grieuously prouoke 1the Lord, as they had sometime before done, as in the third and fourth Chapters it appeares, where their punishment was likewise a long time continued vpon them. But yet after the death of Debora and Barak, the valiant deliuerers of them out of the hands of the Canaanites, they did againe depart from the good course wherein they had liued before, and fell againe to idolatrie, and other sinnes. This be said of their sinne, as may be gathered out of the first verse, and the 25.
- 1The sum of the first part.The summe of the first part.
With the which to begin, for our further benefit, the instruction that we are to take out of from hence, is this; That seeing in all the stories before set down, as well as this, of the punishing of Israel, they begin thus: The children of Israel did again that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: seeing