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28 whether the Apocalypse and some of the Epistles should be regarded as canonical?

Not in the Church at large, but only by some particular persons or churches.

What is the subject of the seventh Article?

"The Old Testament."

What are the two questions concerning the Old Testament, chiefly treated of in this Article?

1. Whether the promises of the Old Testament were merely transitory and temporal.

2. In what degree the Old Testament is binding upon Christians.

How does the Article decide the first question?

"They are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises."

Who are meant by "the old Fathers?"

The good men whose history is recorded in the Old Testament.

How does the Article prove that they looked for something more than transitory promises?

By asserting that "the Old Testament is not contrary to the New: for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and Man, being both God and Man."

Prove that everlasting life was offered to mankind under the Old Testament.