A10933:864
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.
And it is the cause at this day of so little profiting, and so slender fruits of our preaching, as we complain of justly, and inveigh against it bitterly; for that people are at a point, they will do as they have done, and retain 1the sins which in times past they have walked and delighted in, when yet we have daily, in the earnestest manner that we could, disgraced, and made ⟨p. 324⟩them odious, with the most fearful & sharp threats of God adjoined thereto. Yea and contrariwise, if any make right and kind use of our Ministry, who seeth not, that they be those that wax ashamed of themselves, after they have seen their faces in the glass of Gods law, and with Ephraim bemoaned themselves, & bin confounded, because they did bear the reproach 2of their youth; when the old roots have thus bin decayed, then new sprigs of grace have sprung out in their room, and then they have begun to lament after God. Magistrate, Minister, Master of family, and private persons, if they be well advised, they speak thus, yea, they all find this to be true.
And it is the cause at this day of so little profiting, and so slender fruites of our preaching, as we complaine of iustly, and inueigh against it bitterly; for that people are at a point, they will doe as they haue done, and retaine 1the sinnes which in times past they haue walked and delighted in, when yet we haue daily, in the earnestest manner that wee could, disgraced, and made ⟨p. 324⟩them odious, with the most fearful & sharp threats of God adioyned thereto. Yea and contrariwise, if any make right and kinde vse of our Ministerie, who seeth not, that they be those that waxe ashamed of themselues, after they haue seene their faces in the glasse of Gods law, and with Ephraim bemoned themselues, & bin confounded, because they did beare the reproch 2of their youth; when the old rootes haue thus bin decaied, then new sprigs of grace haue sprung out in their roome, and then they haue begun to lament after God. Magistrate, Minister, Master of family, and priuate persons, if they be well aduised, they speake thus, yea, they all finde this to be true.