A17387:215
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.
ISAIAH.
ESAY.
The book of Isaiah contains Prophesies,
THe booke of Esay contains Prophesies,
1. Legal, and these 1. Reprove and correct the sins of the Jews, ch. 1. to the 11. with comfort to the Elect, ch. 11. 12. 2. Threaten, 1. The enemies of Gods people, where note The Nations particularly threatened, from ch. 23. to ch. 24. The general uses of these threatenings, ch. 24. 25. 26. 27. 2. The Israelites, ch. 28. 3. The Jews themselves, whose captivity is denounced with mixture of comforts ⟨p. 70⟩for the godly in the things of a better world in Christ ch. 29. to ch. 36. Or thirdly are historical, ch. 36. 37. 38. 39. 3. Are Evangelical, 1. Concerning deliverance from and preservation in the captivity, ch: 40. to 49. 2. Concerning the kingdom of Christ, about which there are eight Sermons or speeches, 1. Of Christ, c. 49. 50. 51. 2. Of God, ch. 52. 3. Of the Prophets expounding […]. The story of Christ, ch. 53. 2. The fruit of the kingdom of Christ, c. 54. 4. Of God promising, c. 55. Exhorting, ch: 56. 57 ⟨p. 71⟩