3 K, 8-9

2 P5, 10

Je 51,60

61

Je 43, 1

D 31, 9

the tables out of his hand, the Ark of the Covenant of
and broke them at the foot of the Lord, and to all the
the Mount.
ancients of Israel.

In the Ark there was Go in, and write for them
nothing else but the two upon box, and write it dili-
tables of tone, which gently in a Book, and it shall

Moses put there at Horeb, be in the latter days for a
when the Lord made a Cove-testimony for ever.

Is 30, 8

nant with the children of After Moses had wrote Dt 31, 24-
Israel, when they came out the words of this law in a
of the land of Egypt.
Volume, and finished it :--

There was nothing else in He commanded the Levites,
the Ark but the two tables who carried the Ark of the
which Moses put there at Covenant of the Lord, say-
Horeb when the Lord gave the ing-Take this Book and
Law to the children of Israel put in the side of the Ark of
at their coming out of Egypt. the Covenant of the Lord

27

Jeremias wrote in one your God, that it may be
Book all the evil that was to there for a testimony against
come upon Babylon: all thee.--For I know thy
these words that were written obstinacy and thy most stiff
against Babylon.-And Jere- neck. While I am yet living,
mias said to Saraias: When and going in with you, you
thou shalt come into Babylon have always been rebellious
and shalt see and shalt read against the Lord: how much
all these words, thou shalt more when I shall be dead?
say, &c.
The Lord spoke to Moses, Ex 6, 10
The word that Jeremias saying. [These words occur
the Prophet spoke to Baruch, ninety-three times in the
the son of Nerias, when he Pentateuch.]

had written these words in a The Word of the Lord
Book, out of the mouth of came to me, saying. [These
Jeremias, in the fourth year words occur forty times in
of Joakim, the son of Josias, the Book of St. Jeremias.]
king of Juda, saying.

Je 1, 4

The Word of the Lord Ez 3, 16 Moses wrote this law, and came to me, saying. [These delivered it to the Priests, words occur forty-six times the sons of Levi, who carried in the Book of Ezechiel.]

(7) The Gospel of Eve.

(8) The Ascension and Assump-
tion of Moses.

(9) The Minor Genesis.

tians.

(12) The Gospels according to SS.
Peter, Paul, Bartholomew,
Matthew. Thomas, An-
drew, Philip, Thaddeus,
Barnabas, and Nicodemus.
(13) The Gospels of Basilides,
Apelles, and Tatianus.
(14) The Acts of SS. Andrew,
Philip, and Thomas.
(15) The Epistle of Jesus Christ
to Abgar.

(10) The Testament of the Twelve (16) The Acts of St. Paul and St.

Patriarchs.

Thecla.

(11) The Gospel according to the (17) The Epistle of St. Barnabas.
Hebrews and the Egyp- (18) The Book of Her.nas, &c.

Chap.
28 Greece

1 C 2,3-5 13

Catholic or General Epistles.

6(16) I. ST. PETER
6(17) II. ST. PETER
4(18) I. ST. JOHN
4(19) II. ST. JOHN
5 (20) III. ST. JOHN
3 (21) ST. JUDE

13 Rome

IV.-Prophetical Books.

4

3 APOCALYPSE

5. HOLY SCRIPTURES DIVINELY INSPIRED.

1 Ephesus

1 Ephesus

1 Unknown

22 Patmos

I was with you in weakness, without ceasing: because and in fear, and in much that when you had received trembling :-And my speech of us the word of the hearand my preaching was not ing of God, you received it in the persuasive words of not as the word of men, human wisdom, but in the but (as it is indeed) the Word showing of the Spirit and of God, Who worketh in you power: That your faith that have believed.

might not stand on the wis- Of which salvation the Pt1,10-12 dom of men, but on the Prophets have inquired and power of God. Which things diligently searched, who also we speak, not in the prophesied of the grace to learned words of human wis- come in you. Searching dom but in the doctrine of what or what manner of the Spirit, comparing spiri- time the Spirit of Christ in tual things with spiritual. them did signify: when it 1 C 14, 36- Or did the word of God foretold those sufferings that come out from you? or came are in Christ, and the glories it only unto you ?-If any that should follow :-To seem to be a prophet, or whom it was revealed, that spiritual, let him know the not to themselves, but to you things that I write to you, they ministered those things that they are the command- which are now declared to ments of the Lord. you by them that have

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Ga 1, 1112

1 T2, 13

I give you to understand, preached the Gospel to you,
brethren, that the Gospel the Holy Ghost being sent
which was preached by me down from Heaven, on whom
is not according to man.- the Angels desire to look.
For neither did I receive it
of man, nor did I learn it:
but by the revelation of with them from Heaven, and
Jesus Christ.
Thou gavest them right judg-
We give thanks to God 'ments, and the law of truth,

Thou camest down also to 2 E9, 13-
Mount Sinai, and didst speak 14

ceremonies, and good pre-out of thy mouth, nor out of
cepts.-Thou madest known the mouth of thy seed, nor
to them Thy holy Sabbath, out of the mouth of thy
and didst prescribe to them seed's seed, saith the Lord,
commandments, and cere- from henceforth and for

monies, and the law by the ever.
hand of Moses Thy servant.

They made their heart as Za 7, 12 2 K23,1-2 Now these are David's the adamant stone, lest they last words. David the son should hear the law, and the of Isai said: The man to words which the Lord of whom it was appointed con- Hosts sent in His Spirit by cerning the Christ of the the hand of the former ProGod of Jacob, the excellent phets.

18

Psalmist of Israel said :- Do not think that I am Mt 5, 17-
The Spirit of the Lord hath come to destroy the law, or
spoken by me and His word the Prophets. I am not come
by my tongue.

God is not as man, that He should lie.

to destroy, but to fulfil.-For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or shall one tittle shall not pass from words the law, till all be fulfilled.

17

Heaven and earth pass away, but My shall not pass. The law and the Prophets Lu 16, 16The Scripture cannot be were until John; from that broken. time the Kingdom of God is This is the Book of the preached, and every one Commandments of God and useth violence towards it.the law that is for ever: all And it is easier for Heaven they that keep it shall come and earth to pass than one to life, but they that have tittle of the law to fall. forsaken it to death. The Scriptures must needs Ac 1,16 Every word of God is fire- be fulfilled which the Holy tried. Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David.

Prophesy came not by the will of man at any time: Well did the Holy Ghost Ac 28, 25 but the holy men of God speak to our Fathers by spoke, inspired by the Holy Isaias the Prophet. Ghost.

To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom to another, the word of knowledge: To another, interpretation of speeches.

Wherefore, as the Holy He 3,7 Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear His Voice.

The Holy Ghost signifying He 9, 8
this, that the way into the
Holies was not yet made
manifest.

Who hath known the Mind
of the Lord? or who hath
been His counsellor ?
This is My Covenant with Him to make known to His
them, saith the Lord: My servants the things which
Spirit that is in thee, and must shortly come to pass :
My words that I have put in and signified, sending by His
thy mouth, shall not depart 'Angel to His servant John.

The Revelation of Jesus Ap1, 1-2,
Christ, which God gave unto

19

Dt 29, 29

Dt 17, 8

Mt 2, 4

Mt 18, 17

Ez 44, 24

Dt 17, 10

12

-Who hath given testimony our God: things that are
to the Word of God, and the manifest, to us and to our
testimony of Jesus Christ, children for ever, that we
what things soever he hath may do all the words of this
seen. Write therefore the law.

things which thou hast seen, The Word of the Lord en- 1 Pt 1, 25
and which are, and which dureth for ever, and this is
must be done hereafter.

6.

the Word which hath been

Secret things to the Lord preached unto you.

THE CHURCH THE DIVINE INTERPRETER OF
HOLY SCRIPTURE.

If thou perceive that there commandment of the priest,
be among you a hard and who ministereth at that time
doubtful matter in judgment to the Lord thy God, and
between blood and blood, the decree of the judge, that
cause and cause, leprosy and man shall die.

leprosy and that thou see The Scribes and the Phari-Mt 23, 2-3
that the words of the judges sees have sitten on the chair
within thy gates do vary of Moses.-All things there-
arise, and go up to the place, fore whatsoever they shall
which the Lord thy God say to you, observe and do:
shall choose.
but according to their works
Assembling together all the do ye not for they say and
Chief Priests and the Scribes do not.
of the people, he inquired of He that
them where Christ should be heareth us.
born.

knoweth God, 1 Jn 4, 6
He that is not
By

of God, heareth us not.
If he will not hear the this we know the Spirit of
Church, let him be to thee as Truth, and the spirit of
the heathen and publican. error.

When there shall be a con- Then He opened their Lu 24, 45 troversy the priests shall understanding that

they

stand in My judgments and might understand the Scrip

shall judge. They shall keep tures.

My law and My ordinances I saw in the right Hand of Ap 5,1
in all My solemnities and Him that sat on the Throne
sanctify My Sabbaths. a Book written within and

Thou shalt do whatsoever without, sealed with seven
they shall say, that preside seals.

in the place, which the Lord Wo to you lawyers, for Lu 11, 52
shall choose, and what they you have taken away the
shall teach thee,-According key of knowledge: you your-
to His Law and thou shalt selves have not entered in,
follow their sentence: nei-and those that were enter-
ther shalt thou decline to the ing in you have hindered.

right hand nor to the left Beginning at Moses and all Lu 24, 27
hand. But he that will be the Prophets, He expounded
proud, and refuse to obey the to them in all the Scriptures