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Books Received as Canonical by some Jews and Rejected by Others.

• Esther, Ruth.

Books Excluded the Jewish Canon, and Reckoned as Apocryphal by some of the Ancient Christians, but Allowed as Canonical of late by the Church of Rome.

• Baruch, Tobit, Judith, the Book of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, the two Books of the Maccabees.
• The Song of the three Children in the Fiery Furnace.
• The History of Susanna.
• The History of Bel and the Dragon.

Books that are Excluded the Canon without Apparent Reason.

• The Prayer of Manasseh, inserted in the Apocrypha.
• The third and fourth Books of Esdras (ibid).
• The third and fourth Books of Maccabees, in the Septuagint Bible.
• The Genealogy of Job, and his Wife's Speech, at the end of the Greek text of the Book of Job.
• The 151st Psalm, at the end of the Greek Psalms.
• A Discourse of King Solomon, at the end of the Book of Wisdom.
• The Preface before the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in the vulgar Latin and Greek text.

Other Apocryphal Books of the same Nature, which are Lost.

• The Book of Enoch.
• The Book of the Assumption of Moses.
• The Assumption, Apocalypse, or Secrets of Elias.
• The Secrets of Jeremiah.

Books Full of Fables and Errors, which are Lost.

• The Generation, or the Creation of Adam.
• The Revelation of Adam.
• Of the Genealogy, or of the sons and daughters of Adam.
• Cham's Book of Magic.
• A Treatise, entitled Seth.
• The Assumption of Abraham.
• Jetsira, or concerning the Creation ascribed to Abraham.
• The Book of the Twelve Patriarchs.
• The Discourses of Jacob and Joseph.
• The Prophecy of Habakkuk.
• A Collection of the Prophecies of Ezekiel.
• The Prophecy of Eldad and Medad.
• The Treatise of Jannes and Jambres.
• The Book of King Og.
• Jacob's Ladder, and several other Tracts.

 

This is a pretty long catalogue, O Lord of Hosts; but you have, of course, had all eternity to produce it. Now, inter nos, which on the list did you write, and which did you not write? I think I have detected thy bold Roman hand in the Book of Tobit. Am I right? I think I could point you out seventeen lines in the Book