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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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And if they be wise who obey them (the Lord himself being judge) let them,1 who so taunt the godly, lead such with the name of fools, till God bewray themselves to ⟨p. 186⟩be rank fools, because they cannot become such fools also, that they may be wise. And let us bear reproach at their hands,2 seeing God calleth us wise, and let not us faint in our course, for their speaking against us; for surely, no such (nay I may say, few of all the greatest number of professors) do in any other manner then generally and in words only, hold that we should offer to the Lord obedience, but as for the observing of our ways particularly to see that they please God,3 or the keeping of our hearts with all diligence, that our lives may be suitable (as the wise man speaketh) they hold it as a thing merely ridiculous: for then should they see ⟨p. 187⟩cause (as others do whom they count fools,) to look to the particulars, and to one part of their lives as to another, and to be taken up in their consultations and thoughts, how in one duty as well as in another they might please God; whereas now they show, that all is too little to please themselves. But such deal with God, as i• neighbours deal one with another; for they cog, misuse, and deceive one another, till they break out into debate and contention, & hard thinking one of another, and then time & a little absence, must wash away displeasure: and so they wind in together again, and are good fellows and friends: So men deal with God: for if the ⟨p. 188⟩hardest fall out with them as they count it, that by the light of preaching they must needs see, that they are shamefully out of the way, (which they will not be brought to acknowledge for their common faults & sins) but yet if they must needs see their lives foully out of order, and that thereby God is sore displeased with them, at the hardest, if they come to Church, and there do as others; they think they ought to be received into favour with God, and their sins must be forgiven them, and all must take them for good Christians, or else they do them great wrong. But if God will accept the sacrifice of such (in reverence be it spoken of his Majesty)