A17387:165
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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2: SAMUEL.
2: SAMVEL.
The 2: book of Samuel entreats of the kingdom by succession, wherein of
THe 2: booke of Samuel intreates of the kingdome by succession, wherein of
1. The unlawful Successor, of whose Promotion to the kingdom, ch: 1. 2. Dejection from the kingdom, ch: 3. 4. 2. The true Successor, viz. David of whose Inauguration, ch: 5. Government, as it was First good, and that In religious things, chap. 6. 7. In war, ch: 8. ⟨p. 44⟩In political things, ch. 9. 10. 2. Secondly evil, where note His sins committed chap. 11. Confessed, chap. 12. His punishments, which were either 1. Internal, & domesticall, as 1. The incest of Ammon, c: 13. 2. The sedition of Absalom, wherein note The occasion, chap. 14. The beginning of it, ch: 15. The progression of it, ch. 16. The issue of it, ch: 17. 18. 19. ⟨p. 45⟩2. External and public: these must be considered, 1. In the sorts of them, viz. The sedition of Ziba, ch. 20. The famine, c. 21. 2. In the events of them, 1. Good, viz. Thanksgiving, chap. 22. Prophecy, c: 23. 2. Evil, ch. 24.