Thank you, courteous clerks; I will now quote the passage, and give _your_ scriptural Church the benefit of it. "And the other books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read, for example of life, and instruction of manners, but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine." (Art. 6, Ch. Eng. P. Book.) Well, most Reverend Gentlemen, _truth_ and _falsehood_ are in this passage, mixed up together _to a nicety_. In the first part, your scriptural Church tells the people that she, like Hierom (and mind, St. Hierom was a great Catholic Saint), reads her _un_canonical books, for example of life and instruction of manners. Well, _her object_ for reading these books, as far as it goes, is very good; but then, your scriptural Church _slyly_ adds, "but yet doth it not apply them _to establish_ any doctrine:" an artful inuendo that St. Hierom did the same. Now St. Hierom wished, indeed, the Catholic Church to read these books, for example of life, and instruction of manners; but St. Hierom, at the same time, included in the Catholic canon _all_ the books, which had been ranked in the Catholic canon by antiquity. Now, if your scriptural Church, quoted St. Hierom's authority in confirmation of the _first_ part of this passage, why does she slyly intimate, to follow him in the _second_ part, where she contradicts St. Hierom, by asserting that certain books of the Scripture, are _uncanonical_, which St. Hierom believed, and taught were _really canonical_? Come, Reverend Gentlemen, your Church _must_ have had some _sly_ reason, for this _contradictory_ conduct. Now, _do_ tell us _what this_ reason was. Well, if _you_ will not tell, _I_ must. You have seen, how the first reformers _falsified_ the Scriptures, to make the sacred text, harmonize with their _reformed_ ideas; but _what puzzled_ them _most_ was, they found there were certain books, which they could not _possibly tune_ to _their new_ ideas. They _durst_ not indeed, _entirely_ reject these sacred books; for they knew in _what_ veneration, they had been _always_ held by _antiquity_; but on the _other_ hand, they _durst_ not admit them as _canonical_; for _then_, the _testimony_ of _these_ books, would upset _their new-fangled_ ideas; they thought, therefore, the _most convenient_ method, was to make _flesh_ and _fish_ of them, and _then_, they could either _admit_, or _contradict_ them, according to their _own spiritual convenience_.