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we are certain, that there is no direSi Contra-diction between the Decrees of the Councils afore-said, about the Canon of Scripture. For as thatof Carthage expretlly received the Apocalypse , sothis of Laodicea did not expressly reject it. In aWord, the Fathers in ‘Trullo made a special Re-cognition of all the Councils received by orthodoxChristians , and of most of the Canons of particu-lar Writers in T’ejfaram Ckaritatis, approving ofthem in the Main, notwithstanding their seemingVariations about Canonical Scriptures , which theyknew to be owing rather to that Expression beingused one while ftriBly and another largely , than toany real Difference of Opinion about the Booksthemselves.

In the eighth Century, fays our Author, p. 99." we meet only with John of Damascus , who in-" lerts the Revelations among the canonical BooksAs if all the other Greek Writers of that Age hadrejected it. Whereas Damafcen is the only GreekWriter in that Period, who gives us a Catalogueof Scripture Books. He observes further as aProof that this was still far from being the gene-ral Opinion of the Greek Church, that Nicepho-rus, who was at the Head of that Church earlyin the ninth Century, places the Revelations inthe Class of Books, whose Authority was doubtedand controverted. And truly we grant, that ithence appears the Revelations were not as yet inthe Canon of the entire Greek Church, but wedeny it to be a Proof that they were far from be-ing so. For so long as any one Church stood out,the Revelations might in strictness of Computati-on,