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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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To this end I think it not amiss,1 to tell you of a report which a grave Preacher uttered in the Pulpit, and it was this. There was a man who had committed a fearful murder. He was convicted thereof by the Law, he utterly denied it: he was urged by his friends to confess it, but in no wise ⟨p. 248⟩would be brought to it: the Preacher took him in hand, but he would not acknowledge it, he was brought to the place of execution, and there he was much laboured with to acknowledge it, but for all this, he would yield no whit. What of all this, ye will ask, or to what end is this example alleged? I answer to very great, for when all hope was past, and he was casting down from the ladder, he clasped his hands about the gallows, and cried out saying, it was I that committed the murder. It is therefore to be feared, that at the death God will force such men to confess, (to their woe) that which in their health and prosperity they ⟨p. 249⟩would never be brought to. We read of Achan, 2a man of the most honourable tribe of Judah,3 that when Jericho was taken, and commandment was given, that no man should take to his private use the execrable things (which were found in the spoil, upon peril of death; yet he seeing therein a goodly Babylonish garment, of great price, and 200. shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold, coveted them and took them: And when he saw that most solemn inquiry was made (by the Lords commandment) for him that had committed the trespass through all the tribes and families of Judah: so that he saw he must needs be found out, yet he keeps his sin close, ⟨p. 250⟩and goes for an honest man, (as he was of good wealth and reputation among the people) and was thought no worse nor otherwise of, then other his neighbours were, until he was bewrayed, and detected in the scrutiny, and search which the Lord commanded to be made for the trespassers by lot. But to pass to another: