A17387:142
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
JOSHUA.
IOSHVA.
Concerning Joshua three things may be observed,
COncerning Ioshua three things may be obserued,
1. His calling to the government, ch: 1. 2. His Acts.
1. His calling to the gouernement, ch: 1. 2. His Actes.
1. In time of war: where note 1. The sending of the spies, chap. 2. 2. Their passing over Jordan miraculously with the consequents of it, c: 3. 4. 5. 3. The besieging and winning of Jericho, ch. 6. 7. 4. The winning of Hai, c. 8. 5. The covenant with the ⟨p. 34⟩Gibeonites ignorantly made, chap. 9. 6. The victory over 5. kings, chap. 10. 7. Battle with the remnant of the Canaanites, ch: 11. 8. All repeated, ch: 12. 2. In the time of peace: 1. The division of the Land, chap. 13. to 21. 2. The dimission of the trans-Jordanians, ch. 22. 3. The celebration of a Parliament, chap. 23. 3. His death, chap: 24.