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The GOOD BOY getting off the JUVENILE BIBLE by Heart.
Train up a Child in the Way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it, Prov. xxii. 6.
The
JUVENILE BIBLE:
BEING
A BRIEF CONCORDANCE
OF THE
HOLY SCRIPTURES,
IN VERSE. CONTAINING
A Summary of all the CHAPTERS in the Books of the
OLD and NEW TESTAMENT,
From GENESIS to the REVELATION
Alphabetically Arranged,
AND
ADMIRABLY ADAPTED
TO THE
COMPREHENSION AND RETENTION OF
YOUNG READERS. Search the Scriptures, and let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all Wisdom, John v.39. Col.iii.16 LONDON:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY M. ALLEN,
NO. 15, Paternoster-Row;
And Sold by all other Booksellers in the United Kingdom.
[Entered at Stationers-Hall]
The
NAMES AND ORDER
OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE
OLD & NEW TESTAMENT,
WITH THE
NUMBER OF CHAPTERS.
[Genesis] hath50[II. Chronicles]36[Daniel]12
[Exodus]40[Ezra]10[Hosea]14
[Leviticus]27[Nehemiah]13[Joel]3
[Numbers]36[Esther]10[Amos]9
[Deuteronomy]34[Job]42[Obediah]1
[Joshua]24[Psalms]150[Jonah]4
[Judges]21[Proverbs]31[Micah]7
[Ruth]4[Ecclesiastes]12[Nahum]3
[I. Samuel]31[Solomon's Song]8[Habakkuk]3
[II. Samuel]24[Isaiah]66[Zephaniah]3
[I. Kings]22[Jeremiah]52[Haggai]2
[II. Kings]25[Lamentations]5[Zecheriah]14
[I. Chronicles]29[Ezekiel]48[Malachi]4

The Books of the New Testament.
[Matthew]28[Ephesians]6[Hebrews]13
[Mark]16[Philippians]4[James]5
[Luke]24[Colossians]4[I. Peter]5
[John]21[I. Thessalonians]5[II. Peter]3
[The Acts]28[II. Thessalonians]3[I. John]5
[Romans]16[I. Timothy]6[II. John]1
[I. Corinthians]16[II. Timothy]4[III. John]1
[II. Corinthians]13[Titus]3[Jude]1
[Galatians]6[Philemon]1[Revelation]22

PREFACE

This JUVENILE BIBLE, or TABLES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, being a Metrical Index to the Old and New Testament, has with much Labour been compiled for the Edification of Youth. By means of this little Instructor, the reader is not only made acquainted with the chief Contents of every Chapter, but likewise with the number of chapters in every Book. This methodical arrangement is as follows:

Every Book that exceeds five Chapters is divided into Stanzas, each Stanza, acrostic-like, beginning with A, B, C, &c. the Stanzas contain four lines each, and every line is a Chapter (except otherwise distinguished, as the Chapters are numbered in the margin by figures); thus B, beginning the second Stanza and fifth line, is the fifth Chapter, C the 9th, D the 13th, E the 17th, &c. as far as N, which is the 49th Chapter, no Book containing more than 52, except the PROPHECY of ISAIAH, which runs four letters more, O, P, Q, and R; likewise the Book of PSALMS, being 150, which are divided into three alphabets, not exceeding N, and containing 50 each. Those Books which do not exceed five chapters, viz. RUTH, LAMENTATIONS, JOEL, OBADIAH, &c. are without this method, which do not require it, and are consequently expressed in one Stanza, sometimes exceeding four lines.

In the historical books, the contents of every chapter is as fully expressed as the narrow limits of one line will admit; and the PSALMS, which have letters expressive of the occasions of them, are by those distinguished: but the other PSALMS, as also the PROVERBS, ECCLESIASTES, &c. consisting of various and unconnected Sentences, and not being reducible to any certain head, are only characterized by some remarkable passage in them.

This novel and curious arrangement will, it is presumed, gratify the taste of young readers, and not only give them a relish for the Sacred Volume, but even assist their memories when duly acquainted with it.