Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Now whereas it is not so apparently to be seen, that this book doth set forth Christ unto us, in all the commendations of these Judges: (who yet is the end of all books of Scripture) to such as demand about it, I answer: that Christ is not clearly set forth in any of those books of the old Testament first written: but darkly, and by types and figures, as God saw it meet for those ages: and so we are to think of this book, where the deliverances from so great enemies, as are mentioned herein, are types of that great deliverance and redemption of men wrought by Christ, out of the jaws of the devil.
And let the commending of sundry of those Judges by the holy Ghost satisfy us, that they could not have been good men, nor have lived by faith, as they were said to have done, if they had not believed in Christ, and been sanctified thereby. Besides, what authority shall we give to the old Testament, if they who are commended in it, to have been men of God, as divers Kings and Prophets, with many other, did not live and walk by faith, (seeing it is not expressly set down) without which they could not please God?
For the reference, see:
And let the commending of sundry of those Judges by the holy Ghost satisfy us, that they could not have been good men, nor have lived by faith, as they were said to have done, if they had not believed in Christ, and been sanctified thereby. Besides, what authority shall we give to the old Testament, if they who are commended in it, to have been men of God, as divers Kings and Prophets, with many other, did not live and walk by faith, (seeing it is not expressly set down) without which they could not please God?
For the reference, see:
https://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/richard-rogers-on-Christ-and-the-book-of-judges/