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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
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Out of the prophets words ⟨p. 174⟩in this verse and the next, namely the 23. we may learn in what detestable account all disobedience is to the commandment and revealed will of God, and withal, how we should censure such disobedience, and think of it in our selves. In what detestation mens sin is with God, howsoever they cover it, and whatsoever colours or pretences they set upon it, the words (I say) show sufficiently, when the prophet saith, hath the Lord as great pleasure in burnt offerings, as that his voice should be obeyed? again, where he compareth his disobedience to rebellion and witchcraft. The prophet Isaiah doth in the first chapter, in most odious ⟨p. 175⟩manner reprove the people though they offered to the Lord sacrifice, seeing they were disobedient.1 Do you offer to me the multitude of your sacrifices? I am full of your burnt offerings saith the Lord: I have no pleasure in the blood of your lambs and goats; and that ye come to appear before me, who required this at your hands? with many like speeches: and yet we know as hath been said, that God commanded all such things. But why then doth he thus refuse them at their hands? and say he will shut his eyes when they stretch out their hands unto him, and when they pour out many prayers unto him, he will not hear them? This ⟨p. 176⟩he saith unto them, not simply, because he did dislike the things themselves, but for that their works were evil who offered these things, and they did not obey the Lord in other things, which he commanded them: and therefore he saith, wash you, make you clean, take away the evil of your works from before mine eyes, and cease to do evil, or else offer me none of your prayers nor sacrifice: such a thing it is to disobey the commandments of God, that they which do so, although they should offer to God their prayers and praises, and partake the word and Sacraments,2 yet he will not accept them at their hands, but cast them back in their faces, as ⟨p. 177⟩