The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

By writing they did deliver it in the Canonical¹ Books of the Old and New Testament, which by way of excellency we call the Scriptures, or the written Word; begun by Moses, and continued during all the time before-mentioned, even to the death of the Apostles.

By writing they did deliuer it in the Canonicall¹ Bookes of the Old and New Testament, which by way of excellencie wee call the Scriptures, or the written Word; begunne by Moses, and continued during all the time before-mentioned, euen to the death of the Apostles.

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Those Books are in the Old Testament, Genesis, &c. In the New, Matthew, &c.

Those Bookes are in the Old Testament, Genesis, &c. In the New, Matthew, &c.

As for the Books commonly called Apocrypha, we acknowledge therein many profitable things contained, and good for moral instruction; especially in Ecclesiasticus, and in the Book of Wisdom, and some things also necessary for the understanding of the Story of the Church: yet because they carry not the print of Gods Spirit, which the spiritual man discerneth, they are not equalled or matched with the Scriptures. And because in many of them, flat untruths and contrarieties may be found, and in one and the same Story, contradictions with the true Story penned by the Holy Ghost, and in most of them divers things either frivolous and absurd, ⟨p. 371⟩