of them cited in the New Testament There is a third book of the Maccabees (in true order the first) printed with the LXX, whereof Josephus is accounted the author Manasses his Prayer, excluded from the Canon of Scripture by the Council of Trent itself. And yet there is a plainer sentence in it, alluding to a saying of Christ in the New Testament, than there is in any apocryphal book besides Marseilles Divines, who excepted against S. Augustine for citing the book of Wisdom, (held then to be no canonical Scripture :) in which particular S. Augustine would not oppose, or contradict them

xl.

clxx.

R. Pates, the Bishop of Wor cester, present in the assembly at Trent, as a private person, and not in any public capacity for the Church of England, from which he had no mission Paul the Third. A great dis

cxciv.

clxxxiv.

sembler of his mind, which was held to be one of his special virtues. It was he, that summoned the late Council first at Mantua, then at Vicenza, and lastly at Trent Where he gave his Legates instructions, all for his own advantage; among which the chief was, that they should not suffer his power to be there disputed at any hand Petrobusians, and their errors, by whom refuted Philo, by whom said to be the author of the book of Wisdom xxxvi., ciii., clxx. Pius the Fourth, who confirmed

the Council of Trent; out of

clxxxix.

cxxii.

lxxxvii.

cxxxiii.

which his new creed is extracted, and enjoined upon peril and pain of his damnation Pope. A Pope, that said there needed no more persons to make up a General Council, than himself and two others The Popes' pageant dressed up, and set forth, by Becanus the Jesuit Preaching Friars. The Dominicans, when they began to set up Who was the first Doctor in Divinity, and the first Cardinal among them Priests' Marriage, allowed to the Greeks by the Pope at Florence. Prophets. None after the time of Malachy, till the time of S. John Baptist, in which interim the apocryphal books were written by them. that were no prophets The XII. lesser Prophets anciently reckoned but for one book together Proverbs of Solomon, sometimes called by the ancient writers the Wisdom of Solo

cxxxviii.

clvii. iv., xxi., xxiv., liii., lxxx., lxxxviii.

xix., xlvii., xlix.

Purgatory. The Roman doc

trine concerning it sought to be imposed upon the Greeks in the late Council of Florence, where the Bishop of Ephesus and others protest against it.

And renounce it

Holy Scriptures, have their prime and sovereign authority from God Himself The Church being only the witness, the preserver, and the interpreter of them The internal testimonies that they carry with them: but there is no other means that God hath left or appointed, to know the number and names of the books, that they be neither more nor less, than the public voice of His Church in all ages

They are the only fountains of our Religion, and the infallible rules of our Faith: nothing to be added to them, and nothing to be detracted from them

NUMB.

lxxxii.

clxxx.

cxxxiii.

i.

viii., cc.

viii.

i., ii., v., lv.

[elvi.,] clvii.

clx.

before the Fathers, as their guide, when they met together in the ancient Councils Other books cited under the general name of Scripture, no good argument to prove them canonical Septuagint Translation. None of the apocryphal books translated by the Septuagint, whereunto they were added after their time by

liv.

xlix.,liii.,

lxxvii.,

lxxxi.,

xciii., c.

others lviii.,lxix.,lxxix.,lxxx.,|xxxii. The Roman Septuagint, as it

was set forth by the autho

rity of Pope Sixtus V. out

of the Vatican, many ways

it was in former ages,) and clxxiii., from all other Christian clxxviii. and Catholic Churches

S.

Salomon. Five books put under his name in the Council of Carthage, which be two more than he wrote: but

COSIN.

faulty and depraved ib., lxxx., lxxxii. The editions of it various from

one another

Seven Sacraments, which the Romanists pretend to have been prescribed in the Florentine Council, a new invention, and an improbable, if not a forged, story Siricius, his decretal epistle, the first that was put into the Roman Code, above

ciii.

clviii.

322

NUMB.

CXCV.

There was no prelate or person in the assembly at Trent, who might have thought themselves too good to learn of him Trent. The council, or assembly there of a few men, accursing and damning all men in all the Churches of the world that are not of their mind xi., lxxxi., cxciii., excviii. The decree, made there for receiving the apocryphal books into the canon, condemneth all their own ancient and modern Bibles Abuses in religion, and new traditions,commanded there to be received as articles of Faith cxxxiv., cxciv., cxcviii. Their assembly at first made not up above twenty persons; and, within a while after, three and forty made up their œcumenical council

1xx.

CXC.

The voices of Catharin's faction there prevailing for this new decree against the common consent of the Universal Church clxxiv., cxcii. For which cause, (if there

were no other, as many other there be,) the authority of this pretended general council is most justly rejected by us

Theodotion. The first, who in

his translation and edition . of the Bible added the ecclesiastical, or apocryphal books of the Hellenists, to the canonical books of the Hebrews lviii.,lxxix., lxxxii., and ciii. And this was the Bible, which the Africans turned into Latin, and was in use there in S. Augustine's time Tobit. Not cited in the New Testament

Not named in the pretended

catalogue of Pope Innocent the First

Tostatus. His excellent learning and industry: his judgment largely set forth in this question concerning the books of Scripture

lxxix.

xxxix.

lxxxiii.

ning the Empire of the East, and besieging Constantinople, (of which, within a few years after, they made themselves masters,) whiles the Pope held the Emperor at the Council of Florence: to whom he promised great aid, but gave him none

W.

xi., cxcix.

clv.

clxii.

only

ib., clxx.

lxxxii.