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To read the Text distinctly out of the Canonicall Scriptures.
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To giue the sense and vnderstanding of it being read, by the Scripture it selfe.
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To collect a few and profitable points of doctrine out of the naturall sense.
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To applie (if he haue the gift) the doctrines rightly collected to the life and manners of men, in a simple and plaine speech.
The Summe of the Summe.
Preach one Christ by Christ to the praise of Christ.
The Writers which lent their helpe to the framing of this Arte of Prophecying are:
Augustine, Hemingius, Hyperius, Erasmus, Illyricus, Wigandus, Iacobus Matthias, Theodorus Beza, Franciscus Iunius.
Soli Deo gloria.