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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 thereby we may see what little place there is for reproofs & reprehensions, among Christians (such a one as Saul was) though there be never so just cause given thereof; and how men harness & arm themselves against the same, by preventing them, and by defending and justifying that in themselves, which is vile and naught: yea, and they will have them, whose office it is to tell them of their faults, to know and think that they are as well reformed, as the best reformers themselves; and when all that live with ⟨p. 15⟩them see their lives full of disorder, yet not only they will acknowledge no such thing, but contrarily they boldly bear out all, and defend their own doings. True it is, they will not say they do wickedly and that they will do so still (for then it might be hoped that they might be made ashamed of so great boldness) but they do worse, for they call evil good, and so being wise in their own conceit, they show that there is more hope of a fool, then of them, Pro. 26. The best men and most approved servants of God that we read of, how good soever they were, yet in the time wherein they lived, would ordinarily and daily humble and cast down ⟨p. 16⟩themselves before God, because they were sinners, and say, Lord, if thou look straightly what is done amiss, who shall be able to abide it? Psal. 130. And our Saviour hath taught his, that when they have done God the best service, yet that they should count themselves but unprofitable servants, Luke 17. 10. If the best be but unprofitable, and that God may justly challenge them; who seeth not that they are far of from a good estate and condition, who blush not for the manifold sins which they are privy to in secret, and which men are able to bring against them openly? And yet as fearful a condition as this is, to this point multitudes are come ⟨p. 17⟩in this our age, that as some are grown so seared and hardened, that they will not at all come to the light, least their evil deeds should be made known,