Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…

Now as concerning the manner of reading;¹ it must be with an hearty good will to learn and profit thereby, desiring God to prepare us with reverence: to lighten our understandings, that we may conceive that which we read, and settling our selves for the time of our reading to be attentive, and §1so to abandon the wandering of the heart, as much as may be: the which will §2be the easilier done in reading, if it be well watched over (as hath been said before) in our course of living. Also it is duly to be regarded, that we §3apply that which we read,² wisely to our selves (seeing all that is contained §Din the Scriptures, is written for our instruction and comfort) as persuading our selves that all precepts of duty and good life, are set down to direct us (not others only) to the practise of the same: that all sin is forbidden us, and that all the general promises which we read to be made to the Church, are to be believed of us, whether they appertain to this present life, or to the life to come; and the comforts that accompany them.

Now as concerning the manner of reading;¹ it must bee with an heartie good will to learne and profit thereby, desiring God to prepare vs with reuerence: to lighten our vnderstandings, that we may conceiue that which we reade, and setling our selues for the time of our reading to be attentiue, and §1so to abandon the wandring of the heart, as much as may be: the which will §2be the easilier done in reading, if it be well watched ouer (as hath been said before) in our course of liuing. Also it is duly to bee regarded, that wee §3applie that which we reade,²