and virtue: let her pass then to the Gospels, and never let them be out of her ⚫ hands; and then imbibe with all the faculties of her mind the A&s and Epiftles. • When the has enriched the storehouse of her breaft with those treasures, let her learn the books of Mofes, Joshua, and Judges, the books of Kings and Chronicles, ⚫ the volumes of Ezra and Esther; and, laftly, the Canticles.

Yet, although it be adviseable thus to read one portion of scripture before another, they all agree in teaching the fame fundamental truths, and in promoting one and the fame excellent defign, viz. the glory of God, and the eternal happiness of men.

The Books of the Old Testament

ARE DIVIDED INTO

Hiftorical, Moral, Pfalms, and Prophets. The CONTENTS of the OLD TESTAMENT. I. THE HISTORICAL books defcribed, with particular Rules and Directions for the profitable reading of the books of Genefis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Efther. II. The MoRAL books, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclefiaftes. III. The book of Pialms reduced into fuch order, that every one may thereby find a help to raise their affections to God in every circumftance of life. IV. The PROPHETICAL books, Ifaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hofea, Joel, Amos, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.

I. The HISTORICAL books begin with an account of the beginning of the world, and afford us a profpect unto the end of it. Mofes begins with the hiftory of the creation, of the ftate of innocence, of the deluge, and of the peopling the world afterwards: of all which wonderful transactions the heathens had only an obfcure tradition. He proceeds with giving an account of the fall of man, of the entrance of fin into the world, and those many evils and calamities which it brought along with it; difplaying both the juftice and goodness of God in this matter. For here we fee the scene of man's redemption beginning to open immediately after the creation, to fhew us that Chrift was the end of the law, and of all the difpenfations of providence which preceded it; that he was the Lamb flain in the purpofe and decree of God, before the foundation of the world, and promifed from or before ancient times.

Thus we find one and the fame defign purfued from one end of the Bible to the other; and all the facred writers agree in difplaying the great mystery of godliness by various fteps and degrees, from the promife of the bleffed feed in paradife, to the end and confummation of all things. Then Mofes informs us how God chofe Abraham and his feed, feparating them from the rest of the world, and making a covenant with them, that he would be their God, and they fhould be his people; and that in the fulness of time the promised Seed fhould arife out of that nation. This was the firft great flep that God made towards the fulfilling the promise of the Meias. And this defign was fulfilling by various fteps and degrees for the fpace of four thousand years together, before it was fully compleat and brought to perfection. And the remaining part of this hiftory in the Old Teftament is exactly pursued in a natural feries of events for the space of near one thoufand five hundred years, the principal tranfactions having fuch a connection with, and dependence upon each other, that they do mutually fupport and confirm one another's credit. Therefore

I shall

I fhall only remark further, That the main body of the Sacred Hiftory, and all the chief materials of it, are taken out of the publick records and monuments of the nation, to which the writers themselves do often appeal, particularly in the books of Kings and Chronicles. And the connection which is obfervable between these several books of the fcripture hiftory, is likewise a plain indication that they were digested by publick authority and not the product of private pens; deliver ing their thoughts with great freedom, and speaking the truth without referve; as if their only defign was to give God the glory, and recommend their writings to the good opinion of their readers by a naked manifeftation of the truth. And,

To the end that thefe books may be read with greater profit, I have here, for the ready finding any part thereof, collected and referred to the moft material paffages contained in them.

GENESIS.

The creation of the world and all | Abram encouraged by God, c. 15. things therein, chap. 1. & 2. ver.

V. I.

-Is promifed a fon, v. 4.

6.

Is juftified by faith, chap. 15. v.

Hagar and Ifmael's diftrefs, c. 16. & 21. v. 15.

Abram's name changed to Abraham, c. 17. v. 5.

Circumcifion inftituted, chap. 17. v.

⚫ and virtue : let her pass then to the Gospels, and never let them be
⚫ hands; and then imbibe with all the faculties of her mind the Aas
• When the has enriched the ftorehouse of her breast with those tre
learn the books of Mofes, Joshua, and Judges, the books of Kir
⚫ the volumes of Ezra and Esther; and, laftly, the Canticles.
Yet, although it be adviseable thus to read one portion of
ther, they all agree in teaching the fame fundamental trut
and the fame excellent defign, viz. the glory of God
of men.

The Books of the C

ARE DIVIг

Hiftorical, Moral,

The CONTENTS of 1.THE HISTORICAL boot

tions for the profitabl ticus, Numbers, Deuterc Kings, 1 and 2 Chror RAL books, Job, Prov into fuch order, tha' God in cir every Jeremiah, La

7

of the

15. burning * Ifraelites,

· 3. v. 14. & c.

God, c. 4. v. I. o Pharaoh by Mofes

4. v. 21.

5. 7, 8, 9, 10, II. Egypt, c. 5. to 12.

affover inftituted, ch. 12. v.

Its ordinance, c. 12. V.
43. c. 13. v.
3. See 2 Chron. c. 30. v. I. c. 35. v.

I.

ch. 40. v. The Ifraelites driven out of Egypt, c. 12. v. 31.

41. v. 25.

Micah, Na next to Pharaoh, c.

I. T

the v

tor

th

Their journey and paffage through
the Red-Sea, c. 13. v. 14.
Are purfued by Pharaoh, c. 14. v.

5.

e in Egypt, &c. v. 54. to The Egyptians drowned in the Red

of Jofeph's brethren, c.

Sea, i. 14. . 23.
Mofes's fong, c. 15.

supplication to Jofeph, c. 44. The Ifraelites murmur for water, c.

15. v. 22. & c. 17.

maketh himfelf known to his -For bread, c. 16. v. 2.
How fupplied with food, v. 4.

J goeth into Egypt to Jofeph his The hiftory of manna, c. 16. v.

Fb blefleth Jofeph's children, ch, Water gufhing ont of the rock, ch.

concerning hurt by chance, | The altar of incense, c. 30. v. 1. c. .

V. 22.

that goreth, ch. 21. v. 28.
hurteth, ch. 21. v. 33.

22. V. I.

22. v. 5.

22. v. 7.
2. v. 14.
v. 16.

Of the Holy Scriptures,

Sen out of the publick record; and man, mert of ther, That the main body of the Sacred Harpy, and al

felves do often appeal, partico ed in the

e a plain inaction the ervate pezoj deu a· art, a

eft on which is chimba ema

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v. 26.

.18.

3. V. 13.

ans, c.

.-fruits, ch. 22. v. 29. Slander and false witness, ch. 23.

V. I.

37. v. 25.

The ranfom of fouls, c. 30. v. 12. The brazen laver, c. 30. v. 18. c. 38. v. 8.

The holy anointing oil, c. 3c. v. 22. c. 37. v. 29.

The Sabbath-day commanded, c. 31. v. 12. c. 35. v. 2.

Mofes receiveth the two tables, ch. 31. v. 18. and breaketh them, ch. 32. v. 19.

The Ifraelites worship a molten calf, c. 32. v. I.

Mofes talketh with God and defires to fee his glory, c. 33. v. 9.

o magiftrates, ch. 22. Receiveth two other tables; and God's covenant with the Ifraelites, ch. 24. ver. 1. where alfo you read the hiftory of the law, and the terrible manner in which it was publifhed.

-Justice, a 23. v. 3.

-Charitablenefs, ch. 23. v. 4.
-Year of reft, ch. 23. v. 10.

Sabbath, ch. 23. v. 12.
-Three Feafts, ch. 23. v. 14.
-Blood and fat of facrifices, ch. 23.
v. 18.

Mofes in the mountain 40 days and
nights, c. 24. V. I.

The form of the ark, c. 25. v. 10.

c. 37. V. I.

The mercy-feat, c. 25. v. 17. & c.
37. v. 6.

The table, ch. 25. v. 23. ch.

V. 10.

Trefpafs-offering, c. 5. v. 6. c. 6. & 7. v. 1. 37.-The offering at the confecration of a priest, ch. 6. v. 19. ch. 8.

The candlestick, c. 25. v. 31. ch.
37. v. 17.

The furniture of the tabernacle, c.

26. v. 1. c. 35. v. 5.
The altar of burnt-offering, c. 27.
V. I. c. 38. v. I.

Aaron and his fons fet apart for the
priefts office, c. 28. v. I. c. 40.
v. 13. See Levit. ch. 8. ver.

V. 14.

The confecration of Aaron, ch. 8.
V. I. c. 9.

The punishment of Nadab and Abi-
hu, c. 10. v. I.

Meats clean and unclean, c. II. V. I.
Laws concerning women after
child-birth, c. 12. v. 2.
-Leprofy, c. 13. v. 1.
The fcape-goat, c. 16. v. 20.
The feafts of expiation, c. 16. v.

29.

Unlawful Marriages, c. 16. v.. 1.
-Luits, c. 18. ข. 19.
LI

Laws

Laban for his daughters, ch. 29. v. | M.ses born, c. 2. v. I.
-How preferved, v. 5.

I.

Jacobs policy whereby he became

rich, c. 30. v. 37. Jacobs departure and covenant with Laban, c. 31. V. I. Jacob is afraid of Efau, endeavours to appease him, and wreftleth with an angel, c. 32. v. 24. The meeting of Jacob and Efau, c. 33. v. I.

His flight into Midian, v. 15. God appears to Mofes in a burning bufh, and fends him to the Ifraelites, c. 3. v. 2.

His meffage, c. 3. v. 15.
The name of God, c. 3. v. 14. & c.
6. v. 3.

Mofes inftructed by God, c. 4. v. 1.
God's meffage to Pharaoh by Mofes
and Aaron, c. 4. v. 21.

The murder of the Schechemites by
the Sons of Jacob, c. 34. v. 25.
Jofeph hated and fold by his bre-Plagues of Egypt, c. 5. to 12.

Its effects, c. 5. 7, 8, 9, 10, II.,

thren, c. 37. v. 1.

Is advanced in Potiphar's house, tempted by his miftrefs and imprifoned, c. 39. v. I.

-Interpreteth the dreams of the chief butler and baker, ch. 40. v.

The Paffover inftituted, ch. 12. v.

--Women-fervants, ch. 21. v. 7. af--Manflaughter, ch. 21. v. 12. -Stealers of men, ch. 21. v. 16. -Curfers of parents, ch. 21. v. 17. -Smiters, ch. 21. v. 18.

Laws