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 those which heretics circulate under the names of some Apostles; such as the Gospels of St. Peter, and of others.” Hist. Eccl. L. iii. c. 25. p. 119.

St. ATHANASIUS, G. C.—“The Canons of the holy Catholic, and Apostolic Church have confirmed to us the four Gospels.” In Synops. T. 11. p. 202.

St. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, G. C.-“ Learn sedulously from the Church,'") which are the books of the Old and New Testament, and have nothing to do with such as are apocryphal (spurious).-Meditate on the former alone, with confidence, which we read in the Church. The Apostles, and the ancient Prelates, who delivered them to us, were much wiser than thou art. As then thou art a child of the Church, pass not over her boundaries.” Cat. iv. n. xxxiii, xxxv. p. 67, 68.—He then reckons twenty-two books of the Old Testament, and of the New, the usual number; and remarks, that, at that time, there were Gospels, written under false names, which were to be shunned as pernicious: he concludes: “What is read in the Churches, read; what is not there read, read not.” Ibid. n. xxxvi. p. 69.

COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE, LC.-In the same century, a Council held at Carthage, in 397, enacted, that the canonical Scriptures alone should be read in the Churches, the books of which it enumerates. In this catalogue are the five books of Solomon, Tobit, Judith, Esther, two books of Esdras, and two of Maccabees. In the New Testament is the book of Revelations. Conc. Gen. T. 11. p. 1177.

ST. AUGUSTIN, L.C. He lays down some rules whereby canonical books might be distinguished :-“In this en-