The Doctrine of Purgatory and the Practice of Praying for the Dead, As Maintained by the Romish Church, Examined

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES TO CHAPTER II. Note A, p. 32. Maccabsorum libros legit quidem Ecclesia, sed eos inter canonicas Scripturas non recipit. Hierom. in Prol. Proverb. "The Church reads the books of the Maccabees, but does not receive them among the canonical Scriptures." Nor indeed is it likely that a mere abridger of Jason's five books should be an inspired writer. (ch. ii. 19.) See Bp. Cosin's Scholastic History of the Canon of Scripture, nn. lxx. lxxi. &c. London, 1657. "We have in this century (a.d. 451) the General Council of Chalcedon, under Martianus the Emperor, and in the time of Pope Leo I., consisting of one hundred and thirty bishops, which received the Code of the Church universally in use before them, and by their first canon confirmed it. In that Code, often mentioned in this Council, were contained among others the canons of Laodicea, wherein we had the catalogue of the Canonical Books of Scripture; but the canons of the Council of Carthage had yet no place in it. Therefore we may safely conclude that neither Pope Leo, whose Legates subscribed the Council of Chalcedon for him, all but the 27th Canon, nor any of the Bishops there gathered together, acknowledged any other Books of Canonical Scripture than those which the Council of Laodicea, --(which left out all the Apocryphal, or the Ecclesiastical Books of the Old Testament, )-- had declared to be received and read for such in the Church before their time." Bp. Cosin's Scholast. Hist. of the Canon, n. lxxxv. London, 1657. Note B, p. 32. Ab hoc tempore, apud Judoeos restituto templo, usque ad Aristobulum, supputatio temporum non in Scripturis Sanctis, quae Canonicse appellantur, sed in aliis invenitur, in quibus sunt et Maccabaeorum libri, quos Ecclesia pro Canonicis habet, 'propter...

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