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Rh send you a ſummons to remove hence to your long home, you may be found fit to die, and to ſtep into eternity. Deut. xxxii. 29. Pſ. ix. 3, 9, 12. Heb. ix. 27. 1 Pet. i. 14. James iv. 8.

DIRECTIONS on Reading the BIBLE; wherein its Worth and Excellency are ſhewed.

N reading the word of God, if ye would profit by it, then look to God for his bleſſing upon it when ye begin, pray that he may bleſs it to you, and open your ears and hearts to hear and comply with it as the voice of God.

II. Read it with reverence, not as the word of man; but, as it is indeed, the word of the great God.

Endeavour to get your hears impreſſed by his bleſſed word. The doctrines, laws, and very Spirit of our Bibles, ſhould be tranſcribed into our very ſouls. Let then God's word ſtand not only in your Bibles, but dwell in your hearts.