Therefore in admitting all and euery of these bookes, & ac∣knowledging them to be Canonicall, we demonstrate our selues to be against.
Such as reiected all the newe Testament, as did the Iewes, & our Matthew Hamant a 1.1.
Such as allowed part, but not the whole new Testament; and these were of diuers sorts, whereof
Some allowed of the Euangelists, onely Matthew, as the Cerdonites b 1.2, and Ebionites c 1.3; others onely Luk, as the Marci∣onites d 1.4, others, onely Iohn as the Valentinians e 1.5.
Some accepted onely the Acts of the Apostles, as the Tati∣ans: others of all other bookes reiected the said Actes, as the Manichiesg 1.6, and the Seuerites h 1.7.
Some of S. Pauls epistles, tooke the epistles vnto Timothie, and Titus onely to be Canonical, as Marcion the heretike i 1.8.
Some, as Apocryphal, refused the epistle vnto Philemon k 1.9, others the epistle vnto the Hebrewes, the epistle of S. Iames, as Althemerus l 1.10, others the first, and second epistles of Iohn with the epistle of Iude, as Wigandus m 1.11; others the epistle vnto the Hebrewes, of Iames, the two last of Iohn, and of Iude, as Car∣dinall Caietane n 1.12.
Some reiected the booke of S. Iohns reuelations, or the A∣pocalypse, as Heshusius o 1.13: we are also against them which al∣lowed neither the whole newe Testament, nor those bookes wholly, which they embraced, as the Marcionites, who defa∣ced all those places in the Gospell after Luke, and in the epi∣stles, which concernd either the diuinitie, or humanitie of our Sauiour Christ p 1.14.
And lastly are wee against them which receiue the whole new Testament, but deface and put out such textes as mislike