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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.
Doct. 24. The most careless hearers, shall one day condemn themselves
Doct. 24. The most carelesse hearers, shall one day condemne themselues
For thereby we may see and learn that how little regard soever men have of good lessons, exhortations, and admonitions, for the time when they receive them (as too commonly we see it to be so) yet so much the more they show themselves to be destitute of the fear of God, and bewray themselves to be far from a teachable mind who do so, for the time shall come, in which they shall find great fault with themselves, for their so doing, and for their sleeveless regard that ⟨p. 295⟩they have had thereof, even as we see that Saul here did; or else they shall show themselves, to be in worse case toward God, then if they did so.
For thereby we may see and learne that how little regard soeuer men haue of good lessons, exhortations, and admonitions, for the time when they receiue them (as too commonly we see it to be so) yet so much the more they shewe themselues to be destitute of the feare of God, and bewray themselues to be farre from a teachable minde who doe so, for the time shall come, in which they shall finde great fault with themselues, for their so doing, and for their sleeuelesse regard that ⟨p. 295⟩they haue had thereof, euen as we see that Saul here did; or else they shal shew themselues, to bee in worse case toward God, then if they did so.
The many Sermons that are slightly heard and little regarded, even as if they were also as little worth their loose and negligent hearing of them, shall one day be cried out of as fast, and the committers of the sin, shall cast it up, as unsavoury morsels, which men shall wish most heartily, that they had never taken them in: even so they shall wish a thousand times, that they had never committed the sin. For such may not think that the remembering of a sin afterward, when