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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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The reason is this, he having once testified his love freely unto us before, at our effectual calling, and shedding it plentifully into our hearts by the 1holy Ghost, saying to our souls, I am your salvation, and your exceeding great reward, and your God alsufficient: and binding us to believe the ⟨p. 300⟩2same; he remaineth like himself, and changeth not; and therefore he requireth that we should do the same, that is, by faith hold it fast in our persuasion, that he doth so And this is more, that the Lord is so affected to us in the depth of our afflictions, as if we were freed from them all, and were in the middest of all prosperity, which is hardly believed for the time while the cross oppresseth us. The use of this is, that we labour above all things to 3be builded up in our most holy faith, that as by it we overcome other difficulties 4in the world, so we may thereby overcome this fear and doubt also in the middest of our calamities; namely, that in our tribulations we may not shrink back from this persuasion, that for all these, yet God is with us, according to that which the holy man saith in the Psalm; yet God is good to 5Israel, even to all that are of an upright heart, though in outward show it might seem otherwise. And again, Out of the deep [he meant of sorrows] he cried 6unto the Lord, and he heard, and delivered him. And to make one point of two, the same use we ought to make of the other words of the Angel, in calling him valiant man; which was true, because God said it, yet to Gideon unlikely to be so, and yet he found it afterwards to be so. Let it teach us, to give God his due, namely, that he be believed in all that he saith; yea that he saith unto us, though we be not able to see nor feel so much for the present time, as neither Gideon did. A point worthy to be marked, seeing where God giveth 7