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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.
1For if the Prophet Micah ⟨p. 205⟩faith, that God would not receive sacrifices nor offerings for the peoples iniquity, no marvel though shifts and excuses will not serve; nay, (that which is more) a man that walketh most civilly, and cannot be charged by men, to be an offensive liver, but shall be taken for the most innocent of many, yet if he stand upon that, and see not inwardly into his corruption, blindness, unbelief, he shall be so far from being justified and allowed of God, that all his righteousness shall be found nothing but as painting over a foul stock or Image, and his best works as filthy leprosy: and for proof of this which I say, consider Pauls words of himself, and of his former ⟨p. 206⟩estate, when he was not yet converted, thus he speaks, as touching my life from my childhood, and what it was from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, 2know all the Jews, which knew me heretofore, that after the most straight sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee; in which words we have heard what a strict liver and righteous man he was: yet that we may not think that this high commendation was any thing in account with God, hear his words after his conversion, and after the word of God, was received and believed of him, for then he speaketh after another manner, and as the truth was: I once was alive without the Law, but ⟨p. 207⟩when the commandment came, sin revived, but I dyed,3 for sin deceived me and slue me. Here we see that he himself when he came to himself, as a guilty person he condemned himself, notwithstanding all the righteousness which he had before, in his own; and the judgement of other men; so that if such as Paul was (when he lived most strictly in his profession) who think simply they serve God highly, must yet (if ever they turn to God) be ashamed of that which they gloried in before; is it like that they who are by Gods word convinced of great sins, shall escape the danger of his displeasure, by their colouring of their faults, and by ⟨p. 208⟩