6 September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles, “Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures”—Nowell’s Catechism
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September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles,
“Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures”—Nowell’s Catechism
Nowell’s Catechism – “Dost thou then affirm that all
things necessary to godliness and salvation are contained in the written word
of God? Yea, for it were a point of intolerable ungodliness and madness
to think either that God hath left an imperfect doctrine, or that man were able
to make that perfect which God left imperfect. Therefore the Lord hath
most straitly forbidden men, that they neither add anything, not take anything
from his word, nor turn any way from it, either to the right hand or to the
left.”
Article VI—Of the Sufficiency of the Holy
Scriptures for Salvation.
Holy Scripture
containeth all things necessary to salvation; so that whatsoever is not read
therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it
should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be 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,
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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