Books Received as Canonical by some Jews and Rejected by Others.
Esther, Ruth.
Books Excluded the Jewish Canon, and Reckoned as Apocryphal by some of the Ancient Christians, but Allowed as Canonical of late by the Church of Rome.
Baruch, Tobit, Judith, the Book of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, the two Books of the Maccabees.
The Song of the three Children in the Fiery Furnace.
The History of Susanna.
The History of Bel and the Dragon.
Books that are Excluded the Canon without Apparent Reason.
The Prayer of Manasseh, inserted in the Apocrypha.
The third and fourth Books of Esdras (ibid).
The third and fourth Books of Maccabees, in the Septuagint Bible.
The Genealogy of Job, and his Wife's Speech, at the end of the Greek text of the Book of Job.
The 151st Psalm, at the end of the Greek Psalms.
A Discourse of King Solomon, at the end of the Book of Wisdom.
The Preface before the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in the vulgar Latin and Greek text.
Other Apocryphal Books of the same Nature, which are Lost.
The Book of Enoch.
The Book of the Assumption of Moses.
The Assumption, Apocalypse, or Secrets of Elias.
The Secrets of Jeremiah.
Books Full of Fables and Errors, which are Lost.
The Generation, or the Creation of Adam.
The Revelation of Adam.
Of the Genealogy, or of the sons and daughters of Adam.
Cham's Book of Magic.
A Treatise, entitled Seth.
The Assumption of Abraham.
Jetsira, or concerning the Creation ascribed to Abraham.
The Book of the Twelve Patriarchs.
The Discourses of Jacob and Joseph.
The Prophecy of Habakkuk.
A Collection of the Prophecies of Ezekiel.
The Prophecy of Eldad and Medad.
The Treatise of Jannes and Jambres.
The Book of King Og.
Jacob's Ladder, and several other Tracts.
This is a pretty long catalogue, O Lord of Hosts; but you have, of course, had all eternity to produce it. Now, inter nos, which on the list did you write, and which did you not write? I think I have detected thy bold Roman hand in the Book of Tobit. Am I right? I think I could point you out seventeen lines in the Book
