But what will the English people say, when they learn, that your Protestant scriptural Church, has _not only_ falsified and corrupted the Scriptures, but that she has had the audacity, to expunge from the canon of the Scripture many books, which are _as much canonical_ (that is, as much the inspired word of God) as those, which she still retains in her present Protestant canon. I will now prove this. The Protestant Church, received at first (as Luther truly informs us) the Scriptures from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, therefore, must be good authority in this respect, otherwise how can the Protestant Church be, sure that her first Scriptures, were the real word of God? Now, the Catholic Church has ranked, for at least fourteen hundred years, many books as _canonical_, which _your_ Protestant Church rejects as _uncanonical_. In the year 397, a Catholic council was held at Carthage, at which the learned and pious St. Augustine assisted. In that council, the canon of the Scripture, was satisfactorily determined; and in that very council, many books were declared to be _canonical_ (that is, the inspired word of God,) which your Church, has had the audacity to tell the people, are _not canonical_, that is, they are not to be considered the inspired word of God. But _what_ reason had your scriptural Church, to assume the audacious power, to condemn as _uncanonical_, books, which were declared by this illustrious, numerous, and learned body of Christians, _to be canonical_, (that is, the inspired word of God?) I ask you, _what_ reason had your scriptural Church for this _audacious_ step? I answer, none. O but I fancy I hear some of your reverends exclaiming, You are wrong _for once_, old papish botheration. Look at the passage in the sixth of our articles, between _our canonical_ and _un_canonical books, and there you will find a good reason for your _popish_ question.