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REVERENDO

IN CHRISTO PATRI, AC DOMINO,

DNO. MATTHEO

ELIENSI EPISCOPO :

ANTIQUE FIDEI VIRO,

ET IN REBUS SACRIS EXERCITATISSIMO:

DOCTR. ET RELIG. IN ECCL. ANGL.

ADSERTORI AC CONFESSORI

MAXIMO:

VERE INVICT.-QUE MAGNANIMITATIS

PRÆSULI:

ET COLL. S. PETRI IN ACAD. CANTABR. PATRONO:

JOH. COSIN, DEC. PETROB.,

EJUSD. FIDEI, DOCTR., RELIGIONIS,

ECCLESIÆ ET COLL.

ADMINISTER,

HANC SUAM HIST. SCHOLASTICAM,

E SACRIS PAGINIS

VETERIB.-QUE AC RECENTIOR. SCRIPTIS

ADORNATAM,

ATQUE A VIRIS RER. DIVIN. PERITIS

LECT. ET APPROBATAM,

L. M. D. D. D.

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THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE,

RECITED IN THE SIXTH ARTICLE OF RELIGION, SET FORTH BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, ANN. DOM. MDLXII.

HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.

In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church.

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And the other books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth

read for example of life, and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine.

SUCH ARE THESE FOLLOWING:

The Third Book of Esdras.

The Fourth Book of Esdras.

The Book of Tobias.
The Book of Judith.
The rest of Esther.
The Book of Wisdom.

Jesus the Son of Sirach.
Baruch the Prophet.

The Song of the Three
Children.

The Story of Susanna.
Of Bel and the Dragon.
The Prayer of Manasses.
The First Book of Mac-
cabees.

The Second Book of Maccabees.

All the books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and account them canonical.

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