A75287:2444
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The…
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and public, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.
London: printed by John Field for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1649London: printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, 1649
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SECT. 6. A Calendar purposed to show how we might read over the Scripture several ways once in a year.
SECT. 6. A Calendar purposed to shew how we might read over the Scripture several ways once in a year.
IN reading of Scripture, we spake of a proportion of time to be allotted for this Exercise; and that we may so proportion our reading with the time, that we read all the Bible or Scriptures ⟨p. 347⟩over in a year, I bad composed a Calendar, showing how we might read it over several ways.
IN reading of Scripture, we spake of a proportion of time to be allotted for this Exercise; and that we may so proportion our reading with the time, that we read all the Bible or Scriptures ⟨p. 347⟩over in a year, I bad composed a Calendar, shewing how we might read it over several ways.
As 1. by reading every day three Chapters or more in the Old Testament, and two or more in the New. 2. By reading three Chapters a day, and some more of the Psalms. 3. By reading strictly three Chapters a day of those that edify most. 4. By reading two Chapters a day, most of the Old Testament, and all of the New. 5. By reading only one Chapter a day out of such Books as are principal, and a Rule for the rest: But every private Christian may with a little industry find out this, or some other Calendar more beneficial to him; and therefore (not to swell this book needlessly) I shall leave it to him; only with this note, that after all these forms, it were not unprofitable, if he read at least every morning a Psalm, and every evening a Chapter of those that edify most in their order, which is now the constant use of a weak Christian in his family duties.