A

SCHOLASTICAL HISTORY

OF THE

CANON OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE;

OR THE

CERTAIN AND INDUBITATE BOOKS THEREOF,

AS THEY ARE RECEIVED

IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND:

COMPILED BY

DR. COSIN,

DN. OF P., AND MR. OF S. P. C. IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
(NOW SEQUESTERED.)

S. Luc. xvi.

Habent Mosen et Prophetas: audiant illos.

LONDON,

PRINTED BY R. NORTON, FOR TIMOTHY GARTHWAIT, AT
THE LITTLE NORTH-DOOR OF S. PAUL'S.

MDCLVII.

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.

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.

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