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A17387 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. Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. 1618 (1618) STC 4214; ESTC S119554 19,503 146

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against which there can be in my conscience no cauill but I could liue and die in the assurance that that is the wil of God It is incredible how the simplest may settle themselues herein in all the fundamentall points of religion If thou finde of these but 20. 30. 40. or 50. places in the whole Bible thou canst not now beleeue how it will settle thee As for example 1. Ioh. 5. he faith There are three in heauen the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are one All the world now should neuer make me doubt of the Trinitie in vnitie When I had gotten those grounds those I would sticke to●… and for other questions let them wrangle while they will I would receiue further light when I saw it cleere but their quarrelling should not much trouble me And thus I might go on with the particulars of the first sort of rules but these shall suffice to giue light to the course Now for the second sort of Rules one may finde in euery place certaine things strongly obiected against the practise of the godly As for example that they deserue to bee hated because they will not keepe company with their neighbours and because they stand so precisely vpon small matters as lesser othes and doing slight workes vpon the sabbath day and such like and besides many men are afraide to enter vpon such a course of life because it is a way so euill spoken of and reproched in the world c. Now for my owne establishment I would marke where my course differed from other men and in reading I would gather euident places that might warrant my practise As for example places that iustifie the auoiding of the company of the wicked and so againe places that shew that the sincere practise of godlines hath beene euer liable to the scornes reproches and slaunders of the world And so of the rest Now for the maner of vsing these rules I thinke thou maist profitably follow these directions First make thee a little paper booke of a sheete or two of paper as may be most portable then write vpon the toppe of euery leafe the title for that that thou wouldest obserue in reading Chuse out only six or eight titles out of the whole number of such at for the present thou hast most neede to obserue or onely so many as thou art sure thy memory will easily cary to thy reading whether more or fewer In reading obserue onely such places as stare thee in the face that are so euident thy heart cannot looke of them Trouble not thy selfe with that obiection that there are many things which thou canst not discerne take thou onely such as thou canst not passe ouer they are so cleare and euident In noting the places set downe vnder each title only the booke Chapter and verse and not the words for that will tire thee in the end As for example would I obserue all the hard places which in reading I haue a desire to know the meaning of that so when I come into the company of Preachers or able Christians I might haue profitable questions to propound I would set it downe thus Hard places Malach. 4. 5. Malach. 2. 6. And so of other places for I giue these on the suddaine but for instance sake Now when thou hast done thy quarters taske or thy yeeres taske then thou maist write out the th●…isest things as thou thinkest good and in the meane time hast the vse of the places for turning to And if thou shouldest in reading of thy selfe remember some title which thou hast not in this direction and yet hast a great desire to obserue places of that kinde by any meanes write it downe whilest thou thinkest of it and custome in obseruing will make thee able to bee thine owne Directour hereafter Looke not at the profit of this course the first weeke or month but consider how rich it will make thee at the yeeres end I am perswaded if thou feare God thou wouldst not sell thy collections for a great price after thou hast gathered them if it were but for the good they may doe thee in the euill day when it shall come vpon thee Farewell the Lord giue thee a blessing and pray thou for mee and remember before thou read to lift vp thy heart to God in some short eiaculations to beg his blessed assistance and take heede thou be not vnthankefull to God for the successe By all meanes striue to keeepe a delight in thy course and let not thy heart bee too apt to discouragement but reioyce in the Lord. Againe farewell the Lord keep thee till the day of Christ. The order of the Bookes and of reading the whole SCRIPTVRES THe Booke you are to read is the Bible your Bible is diuided into 2 parts the old Testament and the New The olde TESTAMENT containes the Law and the Prophets The Law is expressed in the fiue bookes of Moses called the Pentateuche The PROPHETS comprehend three kindes of writings 1. History principally from Iosua to Iob called the anterior Prophets 2. Doctrine principally from Iob to Esay called the Hagiographa 3. Prophesie specially taken principally from Esay to the end of Malachy called the posterior Prophets The new Testament containes 1. History principally in the foure Euangelists and the Actes 2. Doctrine principally in the Epistles 3. Prophesie in the Reuelation That which you are first then to read is the Law in the fiue bookes of Moses which bookes intreate 1. First of the originall and state of the Church in the beginning to whom the Law was giuen in Genesis 2. Secondly of the promulgation or publication of the Law which was giuen either generally the lawes Ecclesiasticall and Politicall together and so in Exod. 9. or specially and apart and so the Lawes Ecclesiasticall are giuen in Leuiticus the Lawes Politicall are giuen in Numbers 3. Thirdly the repetition of the Law in Deuteronomy GENESIS IN Genesis you shall read 1 First of the creation of the Church chap 1. 2. 3. 2. Secondly of the constitution of the Church from Chapter 4. to the end In the creation obserue the making First of the World in which the Church was to liue Chap. 1. Secondly of Man of which it was to consist in whom consider His happinesse in which hee was made Chapter 2. His misery into which he fell chap. 3. The constitution of the Church must bee considered as it was in the two worlds the olde world before the floode from chap. 4. to 8. and the new world after the floode of which chapter 8. to the ende of the booke In the old world consider The propagation of sinne and punishment chap. 4. The conseruation of the Church chap. 5. The condemnation of that sinfull world Foretold chap. 6. Executed chap. 7. The story of the new world is considered chiefly in the ages of foure men that is Noah to ch 12. Abraham to ch 25. Isaach to ch 28. and Iacob from ch