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Fathers into Scandal , and spares for no Fraudsto make them tell defamatory Stories of them-selves.

CHAP. V.

Concerning the State of the Revelationsin the fifth and following Centuries.

T HE Discourser owns, f. 74. " that Inno~" cent the First, Bistiop of Rome , in theBeginning of the fifth Century, inserted the Re*" velations in his Catalogue yf the Books of Scrip-“ ture: But adds, that at the same Time he in-C£ eludes Ecclefaficus , the Book of Wisdom , Fobit," Judith and the Maccabees ." But is Innocentever the worse Witness to the general Opinion andPraBice of his Time concerning the Revelations forall this ? And has not our Author the very Pagebefore told us, that this is what we are properly insearch of? Why then does he recur to his old Im-pertinence, and mix Considerations of Right in aQuestion about mere FaB? He tells us very grave-ly in the fame Place, that the Council of Carthage(held according to some A. 397. according to o-thers ^7z. 419.) contributed very much to the fa-vourable Reception it met with in the Rest of theWestern World . But this must necessarily befalse, because the Revelations was as favourably re-ceived throughout the Wefern World, before thisCouncil was holden, as it could possibly be after-wards. Agreeably to which our Author himself7 A 93'