NUMB.

Granting us the testimony of the Laodicean council lxiii., lxxiii. S. Basil the Great, one of the collectors of the Philocalia out of Origen's works, where he numbereth the canonical books of Scripture to be no more than we do

Tobit, Wisdom, and Ecclesiasticus, neither canonized nor cited by him in those places which the Romanists allege out of him for that purpose

lxv.

ib.

xxxvi.

cvi.

Elsewhere he maketh Philo to be the author of the book of Wisdom Ven. Bede, his testimony for the Church of England concerning the number of canonical books Joh. Beleth, the Rector of the University in Paris, noting the book of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, and the Maccabees, to be apocryphal, and not received by the Church Card. Bellarmine, acknowledging that after the time of the Apostles no addition can be made to the canon of Scripture

That it is not in the power

of the (Roman) Church to make an apocryphal book become canonical

cxxix.

xlii.

xvi., cxcvii.

That the Council of Laodicea is for us That the book of Baruch is not numbered by itself among the canonical writers of the Scriptures, either by any Council, Father, or ancient Pope

He is much troubled about the third book of Esdras, and the Roman edition of the Septuagint Bible

lvii.

lvi.

Ixiii.

By Card. Ximenius

clxvi.

cxxxiv. cxxxvii.

cxlvi. clxv.

clxxvii.

lxvii.

By Pagnin, Braciola, Birkman, Vatablus, and R. Stephen, all witnesses for us Iac. Billius, defending S. Amphilochius Sev. Binius, granting us the Council of Laodicea And acknowledging the third council of Carthage in the Roman edition to differ from other copies Bonaventure, concerning the writer of the book of Wisdom The Breviary used in the Church of Rome, which appointeth certain Lessons to be read out of the fourth book of Esdras, and yet it is not held by themselves to be canonical Brito, the expositor of S. Hierome's Prologues upon the Bible, excluding the apocryphal books from the canon of Scripture

Luc. Brugensis, concerning the third book of Esdras

P. Burgensis, an Hebrew born, and a Bishop in Spain

Affirming the story of the

Maccabees to be no canonical Scripture

And that S. Paul referred

not to that story in his Epistle to the Hebrews

lxiii.

lxiv.

cv.

C.

cxlvi.

clxi.

clxii.

civ.

clxxiii.

lxxiii.

lxxxix.

lvi.

cxcii.

The Complutensian Bible,which hath not in it the Third book of Esdras in Greek And noteth the other apocryphal books The Constitutions and Canons, set forth under the Apostles' names, both of them excluding the apocryphal books from the Old Testament

lxiii.

xl.

Cv.

xliv., xlv. Fr. Costerus, granting us the Council of Laodicea P. Cotton, acknowledging that the tenth chapter of S. John doth not canonize the First book of the Maccabees Covaruvias, granting us the testimony of Damascen The Council of Aix, the reverence and honour that they had there for our countryman Venerable Bede The Council of Aquileia, attesting the custom of the ancient Councils, to lay the Bible of God, as their rule, in the midst before them The Council of Basil invited the Greeks thither, deposed the Pope, and condemned the Council of Florence The

cvi.

liv.

cliv., clx.

books

lxxxii.,

Council of Carthage, enumerating the

of the Bible as S. Augus- lxxxvi., tine did, and taking the [lxxxvii., word Canonical in a large

sense

The canons of this Council

were not confirmed by the

xcvi.