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 B 1 B ( 546 ) BIB ance to the Hebrew Bible, for the ufe of the Jews. But The books of the New Teftament are, though he followed Hugo in his divifion of the books C St Matthew, into chapters, he refined upon his invention as to the fubdivifion, and contrived that by verfes : this being found The Gofpeloffe*. to be a much more convenient method, it has been ever ^St John, fince followed. And thus, as the Jews borrowed the The adts of the Apoitles. divifion of the books of the holy fcriptures into chapters f the Romans, from the Chriftians, in like manner the Chriftians borthe Corinthians I. rowed that of the chapters into verfes from the Jews. the Corinthians II. The order and divifion of the books of the Bible, as the Galatians, well of the Old as the New Teftament, according to the the Ephefians, difpofition made by the council of Trent, by decree I. the Philippians, feffion iv, are as follow; where we are to obferve, that The Epiftle of the Coloflians, thofe books to which the afterifms are prefixed, are reSt Paul to the TheiTalonians I. jedted by the Proteftants, as apocryphal. See Apocrythe Theflalonians II. pha. Timothy, I. Genefis, Timothy, II. Exodus, Titus, Leviticus, Philemon, Numbers, the Hebrews, Deuteronomy, t James, Jofhua, t Peter, I. Judges and Ruth, t Peter, II. The general 1 Samuel, or x Kings, John, I. Epiitle of ( StSt John,II. 2 Samuel, or 2 Kings, 1 Kings, otherwife called iii. Kings, St John, III. 2 Kings, otherwife called iv. Kings. I St Jude, of St John. 1 Chronicles, • The Revelations 2 Chronicles, The apocryphal books of the Old Teftament, accordx Efdras, (as the LXX and Vulgate call it), or the ing to the Romanifts, are, the book of Enoch, (fee Jude book of Ezra, 14.) the third and fourth books of Efdras, the third 2 Efdras, or (as we have it) the book of Nehemiah. and fourth books of Maccabees, the prayer of Manafl'eh, the Teftament of the twelve Patriarchs, the Pfalter of Solomon, and fome other pieces of this nature. Either, The apocryphal books of the New Teftament are the Job, epiftle of St Barnabas, the pretended epiftle of St Paul Pfalms, to the Laodiceans, feveral fpurious gofpels, Adis of the Proverbs, Apoftles, and Revelations; the book of Hernias, intitled Ecclefiaftes, the Shepherd, Jefus Chrift’s Letter to Abgarus, the Song of Solomon, epiftles of St Paul to Seneca, and feveral other pieces of the like nature, as may be feen in the colledtion of the apocryphal writings of the New Teftament made by FaIlaiah, bric ius. Jeremiah and * Baruch, The books which are now loft, and cited in the Old Ezekiel, Teftament, are thefe, the book of the Righteous, or of Daniel, Jalher, as our verfion of the Bible has it, (Jolh. x. 13. Hofea, and 2 Sam. i. 18.); the book of the wars of the Lord, Joel, (Numb. xxi. 14.); the annals of the kings of Ifrael, fo ofAmos, ten cited in the books of the Kings and Chronicles. The Obadiah, authors of thefe annals were the prophets, who lived in Nahum, which we place immediately after Micah, be- the kingdoms of Judah and Ifrael. We have likewife fore Habakkuk. but a part of Solomon’s three thbufand proverbs, and his Jonah, which we place immediately after Obadiah. thoufand and five fongs, (1 Kings iv. 32.); and we have Micah, entirely loft what he wrote upon plants, animals, birds, Habakkuk, fillies, and reptiles. Zephaniah, Ezra; in the opinion of moft learned men, publilhed the fcriptures in the Chaldee charadter: For that lanHaggai_, Zechariah, guage being grown wholly into ufe among the Jeifrs, he thought proper to change the old Hebrew charadler for Malachi, it-, which hath fince that time been retained only by the. 1 Maccabees, Samaritans, among whom it is preferved to this day. Prideaux
 * Tobit,
 * JudithJ
 * The book of Wifdom,
 * Ecclefiafticus,
 * Maccabees..