8 September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles, “Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures”— “canonical and irrefragable authority:” by Rev. Roger Hutchinson
8 September 2015 A.D. 6th of 39 Articles, “Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures”— “canonical and irrefragable authority:” by Rev. Roger Hutchinson was a sixteenth-century fellow of St. John’s College and Eton College, Cambridge.
Jones,
Thomas R. “An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles.” NewScriptorium. N.d. http://newscriptorium.com/assets/docs/anglican/39-articles/jones39reformers.htm. Accessed 7 Jun 2015.
An
Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles, By the Reformers: Extracts carefully
and fully selected from the Works of Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, Hooper, Jewel,
Philpot, Pilkington, Coverdale, Becon, Bradford, Sandys, Grindal, Whitgift,
Etc.
“Again, how they
understood the word Canonical, it may be gathered both out of the words of the
same canon, where they give none other reason of the approbation of all these
books of Scripture, but that they have received them of their fathers to be
read in the Church. ... St. Jerome, a priest of Rome, and Ruffinus Aquileia, in
symbolo, both declare what books were received in their Churches as canonical
and of irrefragable authority to build principles of faith upon them, and what
books were admitted only to be read for instruction of manners. [Sciendum tamen
est, quod et alii libri sunt qui non canonici, sed ecclesiastici a majoribus
appellati sunt: ut est Sapientia Salomonis et alia Sapientia quae dicitur filii
Syrach, qui liber aput Latinos hoc ipso generali vocabulo Ecclesiasticus
appellatur; quo vocabulo non auctor libelli, sed scripturae qualitas
cognominata est. Ejusdem ordinis est libellus Tobiae, et Judith, et
Machabaeorum libri. – Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum Ruffini, p. 397. 8. ed.
Ald. 1563. (See Parker Society Edn.)]
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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