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Answ. No, it implies that when he is read, he is also preached, for they used with the reading to expound, and lay open the law to them, Amos 8.11, 12, 13. God threateneth a famine of hearing his Word; never was there a famine of reading▪ since the Church was in any measure established, but it's threatened as a grievous curse to want the word preached Hos. 4.6. My people perish for want of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: Now wherein they did refuse knowledge, did they refuse to read? That cannot be conceived, but because they refused knowledge to instruct and comfort the souls of the people.

Answ. No, it implyes that when he is read, he is also preached, for they used with the reading to expound, and lay open the law to them, Amos 8.11, 12, 13. God threatneth a famine of hearing his Word; never was there a famine of reading▪ since the Church was in any measure established, but it's threatned as a grievous curse to want the word preached Hos. 4.6. My people perish for want of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: Now wherein they did refuse knowledge, did they refuse to read? That cannot be conceived, but because they refused knowledge to instruct and comfort the souls of the people.

Use 3. May teach all that are believers, diligently to be conversant in the reading of the writings of Saint John, and the other Apostles. Shall the holy Ghost have an hand to write, and shall not we have an hand to receive, or an eye to read? To us were those Epistles written, even to all that believe to the end of the world, Rom. 15.4