CXCVIII. The Pope's new Creed; the last article whereof curseth, and damneth, those whom God hath blessed, CHAPTER XIX. THE CONCLUSION, AND SUMMARY OF ALL THE FORMER CHAPTERS. Page 284. CXCIX. A defence of the Church of England, and those that adhere to it, by the ancient Church of the Old Testament: by Christ and His Apostles in the New: and by all the Fathers, and Doctors of the Church that followed: all which are condemned by the decrees and anathema of the later Assembly at Trent; which is cause enough, (if there were no other, as many other there be,) to reject it. CHAPTER XX. THE REMAINDER. Page 285. CC. The canonical and undoubted Scriptures being our foundation, we are to believe and live according to the rules therein prescribed us. The golden rule of the Church of England, A SCHOLASTICAL HISTORY OF THE CANON OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; OR THE CERTAIN AND INDUBITATE NUMBER OF CANONICAL BOOKS, THAT BELONG THEREUNTO. Α SCHOLASTICAL HISTORY, &c. CHAPTER I. THE PREFACE. I. 16. All I. THE Books of Scripture are therefore called canonical, CHAP. because, as they had their prime and sovereign authority from God Himself, by whose divine will and inspiration 2 Tim. 3. they were first written, and by whose blessed providence Scripture is they have been ever since preserved and delivered over to of divine posterity, so have they been likewise received, and in all 2 Pet. 1. 21. times acknowledged by His Church to be the infallible (The) holy rule of our Faith, and the perfect square of our actions, spake as a a 2 Tim. iii. 15, 17; S. John xx. 31; Tertul. adv. Hermog., c. 22. [p. 241.] Adoro Scripturæ plenitudinem. Orig., Tract. 27. in Mat. [tom. iii. p. 852.] S. Scriptura verissima regula in dogmatibus. [Origen's words are: 'Malum quidem est invenire aliquem secundum mores vitæ errantem; multo autem pejus arbitror esse in dogmatibus aberrare, et non secundum verissimam regulam Scripturarum sentire.'] S. Chrysost., Hom. xiii. in 2 ad Tim. Exquisita omnium rerum trutina et regula. [There are only ten homilies on 2 Tim. in S. Chrysostom. words here cited have escaped the Editor's search, but the sense is borne out by the following words which occur in Hom. viii.: kal yàp тà πрактéα ὑποτίθενται Αἱ Γραφαι, καὶ τὰ μὴ πρακτ Téa. tom. xi. p. 712.] S. Aug. lib. ii. contr. Donat., c. 6. Divina statera. [al. lib. ii. cap. 6. de Baptismo, tom. ix. col. 101.-S. Augustine's argument is: 'Non afferamus stateras dolosas, ubi appendamus quod volumus, et quomodo volumus, pro arbitrio nostro dicentes, Hoc grave, hoc leve est: sed afferamus Divinam stateram de Scrip The inspiration. men of God they were turis Sanctis, tanquam de thesauris Do- moved by |