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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares according to Mr Bifield's directions [i.e. Nicholas Byfi...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes ...Isaac Archer John WilkinsA Discourse Concerning the Gift of PrayerPrint: Book
1600-1699'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.Isaac Archer Jeremy TaylorunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.Isaac Archer John PrestonThe Breast-Plate of Faith and LovePrint: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer William WhatelyA Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten...Print: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer Lancelot AndrewesThe Moral Law ExpoundedPrint: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer William PerkinsArmilla Aurea, or The Golden ChainPrint: Book
1600-1699'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that they bore more respect to their parents than any natio...Isaac Archer anonThe Historie of ChinaPrint: Book
1600-1699'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be legall preparations before faith is wrought in the so...Isaac Archer Richard RogersCertain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all ...Print: Book
1600-1699'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this wor...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1600-1699'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditati...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1600-1699'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditati...Isaac Archer Joseph HallThe Art of Divine MeditationPrint: Book
1600-1699'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that they might be fixed in my memory, I preached upon E...Isaac Archer John PrestonThe Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise whe...Print: Book
1600-1699'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of God in many cases'.Isaac Archer James UssherA Body of DivinitiePrint: Book
1600-1699'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's offering his only son etc., little thinking (as I to...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, according to which thus I find my selfe for present'...Isaac Archer Nicholas ByfieldThe Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godl...Print: Book
1600-1699'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I kne...Isaac Archer Samuel ClarkeThe Lives of Sundry Eminent PersonsPrint: Book
1600-1699'December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read it. 'Twas upon Ephesians 3:19, which did much affect...Isaac Archer [Commentary upon Ephesians: 3]Print: Book
1600-1699'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quarrell with mee, and I used bitter expressions to him ...Isaac Archer Bishop HallSermon on Ephesians 4:30Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers And readinge I went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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