The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . t and the lesson isthe order of inquiry; the lesson and the proof is the orderof instruction. The exercise of following out truth in this way is one of themost instructive in which a Christian can engage. 537. For the further study of this part of the subject see a See Lisco on the Parables. 422 INFERENCES—PARABLES. any common-place book of the Bible—especially Talbots Bible, and the common-place books of Strutt and Locke. Scripture Text arranged is a very useful manual of sub-jects classified under their respective heads
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . t and the lesson isthe order of inquiry; the lesson and the proof is the orderof instruction. The exercise of following out truth in this way is one of themost instructive in which a Christian can engage. 537. For the further study of this part of the subject see a See Lisco on the Parables. 422 INFERENCES—PARABLES. any common-place book of the Bible—especially Talbots Bible, and the common-place books of Strutt and Locke. Scripture Text arranged is a very useful manual of sub-jects classified under their respective heads and illustratedby Scripture examples. On the subject of this chapter, the inferential reading of Scripture,see Rambachs Institutiones Hermeneuticee, lib. iv. c. 3; Franckes* Guide to the Study of the Scripture; Claudes Essay on the Com-position of a Sermon ; and especially, for the illustrations, the Com-mentary of Matth. Henry, one of the richest storehouses of evangel-ical truth. Felicitous examples abound, also, in the writings of Cecil and Rev. W. Tomb of Rachel, near Bethlehem. The tomb consists of a small domed building, whence there was but a little way toEphrath, which is Jerusalem. Here the Jews still make pilgrimages for lam-entations, and weepings, and great mourning. PART II. THE BOOKS OF THE Though many other books are comparable to Cjoth, in which, by a small pattern, wemay safely judge of the whole piece, yet the Bible is like a fair suit of arras, of which,though a shred may assure you of the fineness of the colors and richness of the stuff,yet the hangings never appear to their true advantage but when they are displayedto their full dimensions and are seen together.—Boyle : On the Style of Scripture. 1. We now come to the study of the books of the we have considered— mi it- /> n m Subjects al- 1 he general divisions of Scripture: the two Testa- ready con-ments: the law, the prophets, and the holy writing
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