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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,

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SCHOLASTICAL HISTORY

OF THE

CANON OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES;

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THE CERTAIN AND INDUBITATE NUMBER OF CANONICAL BOOKS, THAT BELONG THEREUNTO.

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SCHOLASTICAL HISTORY,

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CHAPTER I.

THE PREFACE.

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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

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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

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inspiration.

men of God

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turis Sanctis, tanquam de thesauris Do- moved by
minicis,' &c.] Idem, de Doctr. Christ., the Holy
1. ii. c. 9. [tom. iii. col. 24.] (In qui- Ghost.
bus) inveniuntur illa omnia, quæ con- Luke 1.70.
tinent Fidem moresque vivendi. Idem, As He
De bono vid. c. 1. [al. cap. 2. tom. vi. spake by
col. 369.] Sancta Scriptura nostræ the mouth
doctrinæ regulam figit, [ne audeamus of His holy
sapere plusquam oportet sapere.] Vinc, prophets.
Lirin. Commonitor., c. 2, 41. [al. c. 29.
ap. Galland. Biblioth., tom. x. pp. 103,
115.] Canon Scripturarum perfectus
est, sibique ad omnia satis superque
sufficit. [The argument is: 'Forsitan
requirat aliquis, Cum sit perfectus
Scripturarum canon, sibique ad om-
nia satis superque sufficiat, quid opus
est, ut ei Ecclesiasticæ intelligentiæ
jungatur auctoritas? Quia videlicet
Scripturam Sacram pro ipsa sua alti-
tudine non uno eodemque sensu uni-
versi accipiunt.'] S. Athanasius, lib.
contr. Idol. ad Mac. [contra Gentes,
tom. i. p. 1.] Sacræ et Divinitus inspi-
ratæ Scripturæ per se sufficiunt ad
veritatis indicationem. [αὐτάρκεις μὲν
γάρ εἰσι Αἱ "Αγιαι καὶ Θεόπνευστοι
Γραφαὶ πρὸς τὴν τῆς ἀληθείας ἀπαγγε
λίαν.]

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