of the most pious and learned Christian writers of his time, gives a list 

 of over 150 books that have, from time to time, been held sacred, and 

 said to have formed part of the " Word of God," as follows : 



OLD TESTAMENT. 

 Books now Considered Canonical by Jews and Christians. 



The five Books of Moses. 



The Book of Joshua. 



The Book of Judges. 



The Book of Samuel, or the first and second Books of Kings. 



The third and fourth Books of Kings. 



Isaiah. 



Jeremiah. 



Ezekiel. 



The Twelve Minor Prophets. 



The Book of Job. 



The Hundred and Fifty Psalms. 



The Proverbs of Solomon. 



The Ecclesiastes. 



The Canticles. 



Daniel. 



The Chronicles. 



Esdras, divided into two Books. 



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

 Esther, Ruth. 



Books Exchided the Jewish Canon, and Reckoned as Apocryphal by some of the Ancient 

 Christians, but Allowed as Canonical of late by the Chtirch 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 I5ist Psalm, at the end of the Greek Psalms. 



A Discourse of King Solomon, at the end of the Book of Wisdom. 



The Preace 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* 



