The Holy Scriptures
From The Articles of Religion:
The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha
VI. Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation.
Holy
Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that
whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby,
is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed
as an article of
the Faith, or be thought requisite or
necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do
understand those canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose
authority was never any doubt in the Church.
Of the Names and Number of the Canonical Books
Exodus, The Second Book of Samuel, The Book of Job,
Leviticus, The First Book of Kings, The Psalms,
Numbers, The Second Book of Kings, The Proverbs,
Deuteronomy, The First Book of Chronicles, Ecclesiastes or Preacher,
Joshua, The Second Book of Chronicles, Cantica, or Songs of Solomon,
Judges, The First Book of Esdras, Four Prophets the greater,
Ruth, The Second Book of Esdras, Twelve Prophets the less.
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; such are these following:
The
Third Book of Esdras,
The rest of the Book of Esther,
The Fourth Book of Esdras, The Book of Wisdom,
The
Book of Tobias,
Jesus the Son of Sirach,
The Book of
Judith,
Baruch
the Prophet,
The Song of the Three Children, The Prayer of Manasses,
The
Story of Susanna,
The First Book
of Maccabees,
Of Bel and the Dragon,
The Second Book of Maccabees.
All the Books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we
do receive, and account them Canonical.
VII. Of the Old Testament.
The
Old Testament is not contrary to the New: for both in the Old and New
Testament everlasting life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the
only Mediator between God and Man, being both God and Man. Wherefore
they are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look
only for transitory promises. Although the Law given from God by
Moses, as touching Ceremonies and Rites, do not bind Christian men, nor
the Civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in
any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is
free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral.