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Testament shew, that he made a wide Differencebetween them and such as were found in theJewst Canon. Thus he owns, that the Book ofJudith was not received by the Jews into theCanon of Scripture *. Which he would not havementioned to its Disparagement* had he thoughtit an inspired Piece. What his Opinion was a-bout the Books of Wisdom and Ecclesafticus, ap-pears from this following Declaration. " -j- Three" Books, fays he, of Solomon's have been received“ into canonical Authority Proverbs, Ecclesta/les" and the Canticles: But the other two, Wisdom" and Eccleftasticus, are ordinarily called Solomon's ," by Reason of their Resemblance in Style. But“ the more Learned know they are not his: Ne-tc vertheless the Western Church especially hath“ anciently taken them into Authority Herewe see St. Austin plainly distinguishes betweenthe Books of Solomon in the Jewist Canon , andthose of Wisdom and Ecclesafticus. The former,he says, were received into Canonical Authority:The latter are said barely to have been receivedinto Authority. And even this lower Degree ofCanonization was not the Act of all the Christia?iChurches, but of the western One only, or howeverchiesty. So that by St. Austin's own Rule above

* Per idem tempus etiam ilia sunt gesta quæ conscripta suntin Libro Judith: Quern fane in Canone Scripturarum judæinonrecepifle dicuntur. Aug. de Civ. Dei. 1 .18. c. i6.

J Tres recepti sunt in Auctoritatem canonicam, Proverbia,Ecclesiastes & Canticum Canticorum : Alii vero duo, quorumunus Sapientia, alter Ecclesiailicus dicitur, propter eloquii non-nuUam limilitudinem, ut Salomonis dicantur obtinuit consuetu-de. Non autem effe ipfius non dubitant doctiores, eos tamenin Autoritatem maxime occidentalis antiquitits recepit Ecclesia.Ib. I. 17, c. so.

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