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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.
The book of Exodus entreats of the giving of the law in general, and so the story entreats of two things;
THe booke of Exodus intreates of the giuing of the law in generall, and so the story intreates of two things;
First of the deliverance of the people of Israel, to whom God was to publish his law, from ch: 1. to ch: 19. Secondly of the Laws themselves, chap: 19. to the end of the book.
First of the deliuerance of the people of Israell, to whom God was to publish his law, from ch: 1. to ch: 19. Secondly of the Lawes themselues, chap: 19. to the end of the booke.
In the story of the deliverance of the Israelites consider,
In the story of the deliuerance of the Israelites consider,
1. The occasion of it. 2. The instrument, by whom it was effected. 3. The deliverance it self. ⟨p. 14⟩