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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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VERSE. 16. Then Samuel said unto Saul, stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, say on.
VERSE. 16. Then Samuel said vnto Saul, stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to mee this night. And he said unto him, say on.
Now when Samuel saw how Saul shifted, and ⟨p. 48⟩would not consider wisely of his reproof, he thought he should move him by telling him, how God was offended with him: & for better preparing him hereto, he offers, first to tell him what the Lord had said to him that night. Out of the which words of Samuel this may first be said, Oh how did he show that he loved him? and the like spirit still possessing the godly it may be said. Oh; the desire the godly have to do them good, whose case they see to be so bad, which is a most commendable thing as I am afraid for the wicked,1 and they vexed the soul of righteous Lot. 2But in many where is this love become?3 it is washed away commonly, although what is a more ⟨p. 49⟩beseeming thing, then to mourn for the desolation of the people? But to go forward, this might and ought worthily to have shaken his heart with fear, when Samuel did but say, that God had that night spoken of him, and that also in finding great fault in him: for when he hard that, he might by and by have thought of his sin (as Eli in the like cause feared, when the Lord had called Samuel) and that he was like to hear of something,4 which should be little welcome unto him: as he had before, chap. 13. 13. yet he was nothing astonished at that speech, but bad him say on, and utter his mind, which doth bewray the hardness of his heart.