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How To Read Scripture  How To Read Scripture  By John Wesley  If
you desire to read the scripture in such a manner as may most
effectually answer this end, would it not be advisable,  1. To
set apart a little time, if you can, every morning and evening
for that purpose?  2. At each time if you have leisure, to read
a chapter out of the Old, and one out of the New Testament: if
you cannot do this, to take a single chapter, or a part of one?
3. To read this with a single eye, to know the whole will of
God, and a fixt resolution to do it? In order to know his will,
you should,  4. Have a constant eye to the analogy of faith; the
connexion and harmony there is between those grand, fundamental
doctrines, Original Sin, Justification by Faith, the New Birth,
Inward and Outward Holiness.  5. Serious and earnest prayer
should be constantly used, before we consult the oracles of God,
seeing "scripture can only be understood thro' the same Spirit
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