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.

Of the Names and Number of the Canonical BOOKS.

GENESIS,

Exodus,

Leviticus,

Numbers,

Deuteronomy,

ARTICLES OF RELIGION.

Joshua,

Judges, Ruth,

The First Book of Samuel, The Second Book of Samuel, The First Book of Kings, The Second Book of Kings, The First Book of Chronicles, The Second Book of Chronicles, The First Book of Esdras, The Second Book of Esdras, The Book of Esther, The Book of Job, The Psalms,

The Proverbs, Ecclesiastes or Preacher, Cantica, or Songs of Solomon, Four Prophets the greater, Twelve Prophets the less.

And the other Books( as Hie­rome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doc­trine; such are these following:

The Third Book of Esdras, The Fourth Book of Esdras, The Book of Tobias, The Book of Judith, The rest of the Book of Esther, The Book of Wisdom, Jesus the Son of Sirach, Baruch the Prophet,

The Song of the Three Children, The Story of Susanna, Of Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses, The First Book of Maccabees, The Second Book of Maccabees. All the Books of the New Tes­tament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and ac­count them Canonical.

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lasting life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the only Me­diator between God and Man, being both God and Man. Where­fore they are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory pro­mises. Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching Ceremonies and Rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the Civil precepts thereof ought of neces­sity to be received in any com­monwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called

VII. Of the Old Testament. Old is not con­trary to the New: for both in the Old and New Testament ever­

Moral.

VIII. Of the Three Creeds.

Nicene Creed, Athanasius's Creed, and that which is commonly call­ed the Apostles' Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and be­lieved: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture.

IX. Of Original or Birth- sin.

in the following of Adam, ( as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is ingendered of the off­spring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original right­eousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spi­rit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserv­eth God's wrath and damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain, yea in them that are re­generated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in Greek, phro­nema sarkos, which some do ex­pound the wisdom, some sen­suality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh, is not sub­ject to the Law of God. And al­though there is no condemnation for them that believe and are bap­tized, yet the Apostle doth con­fess, that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin. X. Of Free- Will.

INH the I fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself,