Article 6. Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for saluation
Holy Scripture conteyneth all thinges necessarie to saluation: so that whatsoeuer is not read therein, nor may be proued therby, is not to be required of anye man, that it shoulde be beleued as an article of the fayth, or be thought requisite [as] necessarie to saluation.
In the name of holy Scripture, we do vnderstande those Canonicall
bookes of the olde and newe Testament, of whose aucthoritie was neuer any doubt in the Churche.
Of the names and number of the Canonicall Bookes.
Genesis.
Exodus.
Leuiticus.
Numerie.
Deuteronomium.
Iosue.
Iudges.
Ruth.
The .1. boke of Samuel
The .2. boke of Samuel.
The .1. booke of Kinges.
The Second Book of Kings,
The First Book of Chronicles,
The Second Book of Chronicles,
The .1. booke of Esdras.
The Second Book of Esdras,
The booke of Hester.
The booke of Iob.
The Psalmes.
The Prouerbes.
Ecclesia, or preacher.
Cantica, or songes of Sa.
4. Prophetes the greater.
12. Prophetes the lesse.
And the other bookes, (as Hierome sayth) the Churche doth reade for example of lyfe and instruction
of manners: but yet doth it not applie them to establishe any doctrene. Such are these followyng.
The third boke of Esdras.
The fourth boke of Esdras.
The booke of Tobias.
The booke of Iudith.
The reste of the booke of Hester.
The booke of Wisdome.
Iesus the sonne of Sirach.
Baruch the prophet.
Song of the .3. Children.
The storie of Susanna.
Of Bel and the Dragon.
The prayer of Manasses.
The .1. boke of Machab.
The .2. Booke of Macha.
All the bookes of the newe Testament, as they are commonly receaued, we do receaue and accompt them for Canonicall.