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Samuel's encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30.…Samuels encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30.…
Samuel's encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30. Preached and penned, by that worthy servant of God, Mr. Richard Rogers, late preacher of Wetherfield, in Essex. And published word for word, according to this own copy, finished before his deathSamuels encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30. Preached and penned, by that worthy seruant of God, Mr. Richard Rogers, late preacher of Wetherfield, in Essex. And published word for word, according to this owne coppy, finished before his death
London: printed by Edw. Griffin for Samuel Man, 1620London: printed by Edw. Grifin for Samuel Man, 1620
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 second branch of the doctrine.
The secōd branch of the doctrine.
Another thing there is in this answer of Saul, well ⟨p. 133⟩worth the marking: and that is a near companion with the former,1 and an other true work of an hypocrite: that in such acts as had been done of him, contrary to the charge that God gave him, and the Prophet did evidently convince him of disobedience thereto, so as he could not deny it: there he washed his hands, though he was deepest in the fault, and laid it upon others: saying, the people did it, as though they would have done that without him: and besides the Prophet did charge him personally, with the very same thing, saying, why hast thou disobeyed the voice of the Lord, and turned to the spoil? so that it was he, howsoever the ⟨p. 134⟩people agreed to him which doth bewray another dangerous thing in mens lives, who are yet members of the visible Church of God. that as they care not how negligent and slack they be in obeying God, nor how small and mean service they give him, so yet if they be so urged with some of their doings, that they cannot defend them to be good, yet how many excuses will they have to free themselves by from blame? and to make a foul fault seem small or none at all, to clear themselves, though neither cleanly nor truly:2 and all, that they may not be charged, upon whomsoever it light: In which kind of dealing, as they are never the more ⟨p. 135⟩discharged before God (no nor for the most part before the world] yet thus they love to deceive themselves, & suffer the devil to blindfold them hereby, and so make a custom of sinning, till it be most hard to draw them out of it: Far are such of, we see, from accusing themselves: and therefore far from the estate of righteous men, seeing the righteous is his own first accuser. And although no man ought to accuse himself when he is innocent, no more then he is bound to offer himself to the cross and affliction, which God doth not lay upon him; yet when a man knoweth himself to be guilty and faulty, and will not see but hideth