'1& eciauY saitfy: mits the Bcok of Nehemiah, and names but one Of the Macchabeees. There particular Provin- cial Councils being of incompetent Authority to define the Canon for the Univerfal Church, and withal variant, nay repugnant among themfelves. Whither muff we go but to a Ge- neral Council ? but Oh how late very late dotit that come ? How long will the Authority of Scripture and Faith of Chriflians be fufpen- dedi ? and to how little fatisfaclion will this definition be ? About the year 682 was the faxth General Council" ofConftantinople in Trullo, and as to this Point,what did it ? It confirmed the Canons of the Apeftles, the Council of Laodi- cea, and the Council of Carthage; which three in this Point being totally incon(i flent each with other, every one by the leave of thefe Fa- thers who con'fi`rmed them all, may chufe what Canonical Books hé will have, whether thofe in the Canons of the Apó(tles, or thofe in the Council, of Laodice2, or thofe in that of Ccir- i'haye ; and what pitiful incertainties are here ? And now it is to little ptirpofe to fly over ma- ny Centuries more till we come to the Coun- cils of Florence and Trent, thefe are late ones'; and as our Learned Trrital <er faith, Non legiti maChri(tianorum Concilia, fed Tyrannic'a Anti - chrifíi Conventicula, ád oppugnandam Evsnge- lii veritatem in(titúta , and thus it appears even Hiftorically that the Authority of Scripture depends not on the Church. But waving this Popith The%s, in which I have by the way made this long Digreflion : I proceed to the matter in hand. True w.,
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