A17387:15
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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Now for the first of these, that is, such places as might most profit me in my particular reading: ⟨image 7⟩I would bring this mind to the Scriptures. (I will but give a taste here.)
Now for the first of these, that is, such places as might most profit me in my particuler reading: ⟨image 7⟩I would bring this minde to the Scriptures. (I will but giue a tast here.)
First it were a thing of admirable use all my life long, if I did set down all the places of Scripture, that in the reading I find sensible comfort and ravishing of heart in: It may be in the whole Bible I may find 20. 40. 50. &c. of such places, as I was sure in the reading did wonderfully fill my heart with secret refreshing, and sensible joy: Now these places so noted, not only serve for present use, but while I live, in any distress, I may have recourse to these, as so many wells of joy, and if in my grief one, or two, or ten of them did not comfort me: ⟨image 8⟩yet a thousand to one some of them will have spirit and life in them to refresh me again in any sorrows: Besides, it marvellously establisheth my faith, when I remember, in how many distinct places of Scripture the Lord was pleased to comfort me in particular. This is one thing now we should observe.
First it were a thing of admirable vse all my life long, if I did set downe all the places of Scripture, that in the reading I finde sensible comfort and rauishing of heart in: It may be in the whole Bible I may finde 20. 40. 50. &c. of such places, as I was sure in the reading did wonderfully fill my heart with secret refreshing, and sensible ioy: Now these places so noted, not onely serue for present vse, but while I liue, in any distresse, I may haue recourse to these, as so many wells of ioy, and if in my griefe one, or two, or tenne of them did not comfort mee: