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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1688. Excerpt:... of this Land, who is now with God, I kept no Copy of roy Meditations, by which Error I was now as far to seek as ever, which was the cause which made me flower in returning Answer to your Letters. This courtesic, if you shall be pleased to grant me, you shall for ever oblige unto you,. 73ur tru Friend and Servants JOHN HALES. The Method of BLeadiog Profane History. IN perusal of history, provide you some Writers in Chronology and Cosmography. For if you be ignorant of the struts and. PJacu when and where the things you read were done, if,'cannot chuse but breed confusion in your reading and make you many times grofly to slipan.bistakeyciur.diseourse. When therefore you set-to. your Book, have by. you Helvicus his Chronology; 'and a-Map of the Country in which you ire conversant j and repair unto them to acquaint you with time and place, when, and where you are; If you be versing the Ancient Histories, then provide you Ptolornys Maps, or Orteliys h.i$ Conatus, Geographic: if the latter, then some of the "hMem Cards. v:.. j..:.'. As for Method of Reading History, note, that there are in Story two things especially considerable. First, the Order of the; Story it self: and Secondly, Moral, or Statical Observations, for common life and practice.' For the latter o( these, there needs no Method in reading; all the method is in digesting your reading, by bringing it into Heads, or Common places, or Indices, or the like. For In this kind, read what Books, and in what order ye list, it matters not; so your Notes may be be in some such order as may be useful fir you. For the former, that is the eourfi end order of the Story; The order of reading ought to be the some with the order of the things themselves j what was first done, that is to be read in the first pl...