Methodus Sacrae Scripturae in publicis tum praelectionibus tum concionibus utiliter atque intelligenter tractandae

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METHOD OF SACRED
SCRIPTURE IN PUBLIC
both in lectures and ser-
mons, usefully and
intelligently
treated.

WHICH IS ILLUSTRATED BY PRACTICE, THAT IS,
by some examples, and continuously
by a commentary on Paul's Epistle
to Philemon.

BY LAMB. DANEAU.

To D. Jeremias Bastings.

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YOU ask of me, most beloved brother, and you ask in such a way that, because of our friendship, I no longer dare to deny you, that I write down by what reason and by what method I believe Sacred Scripture can best be treated, both in lectures and in sermons. I, indeed, as I have often answered before, so now also reply: that the most holy and true method of explaining the divine Word seems to me to be the one that the Prophets, and later the Apostles—men taught ἀμέσως directly/immediately by the Spirit of God Himself—left to us.