and allowe of them; as for that the holy Spirit in our hearts doth testifie that they are from God: They carrie a sacred and diuine authoritie with them; and they doe also agree in all pointes with the other bookes of God in the old Testament.
Errors, & adversaries vnto this truth.
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 .
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 , and Ebionites ; others onely Luk, as the Marci∣onites , others, onely Iohn as the Valentinians .
Some accepted onely the Acts of the Apostles, as the Tati∣ans: others of all other bookes reiected the said Actes, as the Manichies, and the Seuerites .
Some of S. Pauls epistles, tooke the epistles vnto Timothie, and Titus onely to be Canonical, as Marcion the heretike .
Some, as Apocryphal, refused the epistle vnto Philemon , others the epistle vnto the Hebrewes, the epistle of S. Iames, as Althemerus , others the first, and second epistles of Iohn with the epistle of Iude, as Wigandus ; others the epistle vnto the Hebrewes, of Iames, the two last of Iohn, and of Iude, as Car∣dinall Caietane .
Some reiected the booke of S. Iohns reuelations, or the A∣pocalypse, as Heshusius : 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 .
And lastly are wee against them which receiue the whole new Testament, but deface and put out such textes as mislike