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The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises
The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatises containing directions about six of the weightiest things can concern a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises containing directions about sixe of the waightiest things can concerne a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by John Legatt, 1630
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.
Thus of the Rules that concern prayer. There remains the reading of Scripture, and singing of Psalms, as the other part of the ordinary worship of God.
THus of the Rules that concerne prayer. There remaines the reading of Scripture, and singing of Psalmes, as the other part of the ordinary worship of God.
Concerning the reading of ⟨p. 551⟩1the Scriptures, I will instant in one place of Scripture only, which contains the charge given to Joshua, Cha. 1. 8, 9. which comprehends the substance of the necessary directions about private reading. I say necessary; for godly men may, and have advised divers courses for reading of Scripture, which are not absolutely necessary, but arbitrary, as may stand with the leisure and capacity of the persons that will read; such are those directions that show how many Chapters may be read in a day, and what things may be observed in reading, &c. which, as they may be profitable to many Christians, and expedient too, yet they must not be understood so, as that those persons sin, which read not so often, or so many Chapters, or the like. The things therefore that must necessarily be observed by such as can read the Bible, I take to be these.
Concerning the reading of ⟨p. 551⟩1the Scriptures, I will instant in one place of Scripture onely, which containes the charge giuen to Ioshua, Cha. 1. 8, 9. which comprehends the substance of the necessary directions about priuate reading. I say necessary; for godly men may, and haue aduised diuers courses for reading of Scripture, which are not absolutely necessary, but arbitrary, as may stand with the leasure and capacity of the persons that will reade; such are those directions that shew how many Chapters may be read in a day, and what things may be obserued in reading, &c. which, as they may be profitable to many Christians, and expedient too, yet they must not bee vnderstood so, as that those persons sinne, which reade not so often, or so many Chapters, or the like. The things therefore that must necessarily be obserued by such as can reade the Bible, I take to be these.