This early eighteenth-century survey of exegetical methods analyzes seven different branches of scriptural study: grammatical, historical, logical, expository, doctrinal, inferential, and practical study of the Word. As a proponent of devotional Bible study and of furthering education, Francke founded the Collegium Philobiblicum, a school focused on reading and interpreting biblical pericopes from the original languages—many of his scholarly teachings found their way into this book. This nineteenth-century edition contains a 50-page biography of August Hermann Francke and end notes from this edition’s translator.