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.

Title

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.

Author

Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.

Publication

London :: Printed by E. Griffin for N. Butter neere St. Austens gate,

1618.

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Bible -- Reading -- Early works to 1800.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17387.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the noble Knight, Sr HORRACE VERE, Generall of the English-forces in the Low-countries. AND To the most worthy Lady, the Lady MARY VERE his Wife, my most respected and religious Parishioners.
• The Preface.
• text
  • The order of the Bookes, and of reading the whole SCRIPTVRES.
    • GENESIS.
    • EXODVS.
    • LEVITICVS.
    • NVMBERS.
    • Deuteronomie.
    • IOSHVA.
    • IVDGES.
    • RVTH.
    • I: SAMVEL.
    • 2: SAMVEL.
    • 1: KINGS.
    • 2. Kings.
    • 1: Chronicles.
    • 2. Chronicles.
    • EZRA.
    • Nehemiah.
    • ESTER.
    • IOB.
    • Prouerbes.
    • Ecclesiastes.
    • Canticles.
    • ESAY.
    • IEREMY.
    • Lamentations.
    • Ezechiell.
    • DANIEL.
    • HOSEA.
    • IOEL.
    • AMOS.
    • OBADIAH.
    • IONAH.
    • MICAH.
    • NAHVM
    • HABACVK.
    • ZEPHONIAH.
    • HAGGEI.
    • ZACHERIAH
    • MALACHY.
  • THE NEW Testament.
    • MATHEW.
    • MARKE.
    • LVKE.
    • IOHN.
    • ACTES.
    • ROMANS.
    • 1. Corinthians.
    • 2. Corinthians.
    • Galathians.
    • Ephesians.
    • Philippians.
    • Colossians.
    • 1. Thessalonians.
    • 2. Thessalonians.
    • 1. TIMOTHY.
    • 2. TIMOTHY.
    • TITVS.
    • HEBREWES.
    • IAMES.
    • 1. PETER.
    • 2. PETER.
    • 1. IOHN.
    • REVELATION.
    • book
• Rules or Titles of things to be obserued in reading.
• RVLES of the second sort.