Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Of the New Testament.Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, The Acts of the Apostles, Pauls Epistle to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Phillippians, Colossians, 1 Thes∣salonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 To Timothy, 2 To Timothy, To Titus, To Philemon, The Epistle to the Hebrews, The Epistle of James, The first and second Epistles of Peter, The first, second and third Epistles of John, The Epistle of Jude, The Revelation.
All which are given by the inspiration of God to be the Rule of Faith and Life.
III. The Books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of Divine inspiration, are no part of the Canon of the Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of, then other humane writings.
IV. The Authority of the holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obey∣ed, dependeth not upon the Testimony of any man or Church, but wholly upon God (who is Truth it self) the Author thereof; and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.
V. We may be moved, and induced by the Testimony of the Church, to an high and reve∣rent esteem of the holy Scripture. And the heavenliness of the Matter, the efficacy of the Doctrine, the Maiesty of the Style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole, (which is, to give all glory to God) the full discovery it makes of the only way of Mans Salvation, the many other incomparable excellencies, and the intire perfection thereof, are Arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence it self to be the Word of God; Yet notwithstanding, our full perswasion and assurance of the infallible Truth and Divine Authority thereof, is from the inward work of the holy Spirit, bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts.
VI. The whole Counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own Glory, mans Salvation, Faith, and Life, is either expresly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessa∣ry consequence may be deduced from Scripture; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new Revelations of the Spirit, or Traditions of men. Nevertheless we acknowledge the inward illumination of the spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word: And that there are some circum∣stances concerning the Worship of God and Government of the Church, common to hu∣mane actions and Societies, which are to be ordered by the Light of Nature and Christi∣an prudence, according to the general Rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.
VII. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for Salvati∣on, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
VIII. The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the Native Language of the peo∣ple of God of old) and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of writing of it was most generally known to the Nations) being immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence kept pure in all Ages, are therefore Authentical; so as in all Controversies of Religion, the Church is finally to appeal unto them. But because these Original Tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have right unto, and interest