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Profesor Francks’s Guide to the Reading of the Scriptures gives most admirable rules for the intelligent, devotional, and practical study of the Scriptures. Mr. Horne’s Introduction also furnishes a valuable digest of thoughtful matter. Vol. ii. Part ii. Mr. Dodwell judiciously recommends making the Bible the common-place book for all our other studies. (Letters of Advice, p. 235.) Philip Henry in his preparatory Ministerial study used an interleaved Bible for short notes on Scripture—a plan which he recommended to his young men; adding that such expositions and observations are more happy and considerable sometimes than those that are found in the professed commentators. ‘I profess’ (he would say) ‘to teach no other learning but Scripture-learning.’ Life, p. 206.