A17387:13
Directions for the private reading of the Scriptures wherein besides the number of chapters…Directions for the priuate reading of the Scriptures wherein besides the number of chapters…
Directions for the private reading of the Scriptures wherein besides the number of chapters assigned to every day, the order and drift of the whole Scriptures is methodically set down: and choice rules (that show how to read with profit) are likewise given: the use whereof is showed in the preface. By Nicolas Bifeild preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex.Directions for the priuate reading of the Scriptures wherein besides the number of chapters assigned to euery day, the order and drift of the whole Scriptures is methodically set downe: and choice rules (that shew how to read with profit) are likewise giuen: the vse whereof is shewed in the preface. By Nicolas Bifeild preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by E. Griffin for N. Butter near St. Austens gate, 1618London: printed by E. Griffin for N. Butter neere St. Austens gate, 1618
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THESE directions for reading the SCRIPTURES contain three things. First Analytical tables, concerning the order of the whole SCRIPTURES, and the several books and Chapters gathered to this end, that the Reader might before he reads, mark the drift of each book and Chapter, and when he hath read, might with singular ease and ⟨image 6⟩delight remember, what he hath read. The second is a Calendar, showing what number of chapters are to be read every day, that so the whole Bible might be read over in a year. The number of Chapters, while you are reading the old Testament is for the most part three a day, and when you come to the new Testament, it is but two: Sometimes where the matter is Historical, or Typical, or the chapters short, I have set down a greater number. The third thing is the Rules for observation of profitable things in reading. Many complain of their not profiting in reading, and some weak Christians afflict their ⟨image 6⟩hearts marvellously with grief and fear, because they cannot read with more comfort and profit, when the fault is not in their affection to the word, so much as in their want of direction for their reading.
THESE directions for reading the SCRIPTVRES containe three things. First Analyticall tables, concerning the order of the whole SCRIPTVRES, and the seuerall bookes and Chapters gathered to this end, that the Reader might before hee reads, marke the drift of each booke and Chapter, and when hee hath read, might with singular ease and ⟨image 6⟩delight remember, what hee hath read. The second is a Calendar, shewing what number of chapters are to be read euery day, that so the whole Bible might bee read ouer in a yeere. The number of Chapters, while you are reading the olde Testament is for the most part three a day, and when you come to the new Testament, it is but two: Sometimes where the matter is Historicall, or Typicall, or the chapters short, I haue set downe a greater number. The third thing is the Rules for obseruation of profitable things in reading. Many complaine of their not profiting in reading, and some weake Christians afflict their ⟨image 6⟩hearts maruellously with griefe and feare, because they cannot read with more comfort and profit, when the fault is not in their affection to the word, so much as in their want of direction for their reading.