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THE SVMME AND PARTITION OF THE HOLIE BIBLE.

With a brife note of the Canonical and Apochryphal Bookes.

y the vniforme consent of al learned Diuines, the holie Bible,

or written word of God, conteyneth Expressed orimplied, al

thinges that man is to beleue, to obserue, & to auoid, for obtayning

of aeternal saluation. That is, al matters of faith &

maners, by which we may know and serue God, and so be spiritually

ioyned with him, in this life, & in eternitie. For both the old &

new Testament propose and testifie vnto vs, one and the same God, the same

Christ, the same Church, and other Mysteries of our beleefe, not differing in

substance, but in maner of vttering; the old more obscurely in figures and prophecies

foretelling those thinges, which the New declareth (in great part) as

donne and performed. VVherupon saith S. Augustin: In the Old Testament

the New lieth hidden: & in the New the Old lieth open.

And touching their names, wherein appareth difference, the one (saith

the same Doctor) is called the old Testament, either because it propofeth

promises of temporal thinges (VVherwith our old corruptnes

is allured) Or in respect of the New, by which it is fulfilled, and

in some part abolished. The other is called the New, because by

it man is renewed, and hath promise of eternal life: Which shal

neuer waxe old nor decay. Likewise S. Gregorie the great testifieth this conformitie,

and correspondence betwen the Old and New Testament, affirming

that the same is signified by the prophet Esccbiels vision of an hcele, which

had foure faces, or apparence of foure whiles, the shape whereof was, as it

were, a wheele in the middes of a wheele. What is this saith he,

nisi quod in Testamenti veteris litera Testamentum nouum latuit

per Allegoriam? but that in the letter of the old Testament,

the New lay hidden by an Allegorie?

And as the same is the summe and subject of both Testaments: so both are

diuided (for the more principal partes therof) into foure sortes of Bookes:

Legal, Historical, Sapiential, & Prophetical. The Legal bookes of the

old Testament are the fiue Bookes of Moises; Genesis, Exodus, Leuiticus, Legal.