A17387:282
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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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.
THE NEW Testament.
MATTHEW.
MATHEW.
The Evangelist St Matthew entreats of things, that concern
THe Euangelist St Mathew intreates of things, that concerne
1. The person of Christ, as his birth, ch. 1. his education, c. 2. 2. His office, where consider, 1. The preparation to his office: both In his fore-runner John Baptist, ch. 3. And in himself, who was Baptised, ch. 3. Tempted, ch. 4. ⟨p. 90⟩2. The execution of his office, 1. Prophetical in teaching: His doctrine must be considered, 1. As briefly propounded in one Sermon, chap. 5. 6. 7. 2. As more largely expounded and confirmed, and so 1. He teacheth & confirms it by miracles of all sorts, from ch. 8. to c 19. 2. He reproves and confuteth the practise, and doctrine of the Pharisees, from c. 19. to c. 24. 3. He prophesieth of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the world, ch. 24. 25. ⟨p. 91⟩