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CANON

OF THE

Old and New Testaments

ASCERTAINED;

OR,

THE BIBLE COMPLETE

WITHOUT THE

APOCRYPHA & UNWRITTEN TRADITIONS.

BY ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER,
Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology, in the Theological
Seminary, at Princeton, N. J.

And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith
which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable.-PAUL.

PRINCETON PRESS:

Printed and Published by D. A. Borrenstein,
FOR G. AND C. CARVILL, NEW YORK.

1826.

(453)

༡.s.

District of New Jersey, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Nineteenth day of September, in the Fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Anno Domini 1826, D. A. BORRENSTEIN, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to

wit:

The Canon of the Old and New Testaments ascertained; or the Bible complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions. By ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology, in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, New Jersey. And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.-PAUL.

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WM. PENNINGTON,
Clerk of the District of New Jersey.

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PREFACE.

ONE motive which induced the author to undertake the following compilation, was the desire of furnishing a supplement to the little volume which he recently published, on the EVIDENCES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; for the argument for the truth of Divine Revelation cannot be considered complete, without the testimonies, by which the Canonical authority of the several books of Scripture is established. But he was also influenced by the consideration, that a convenient and compendious work on this subject, is a desideratum, in our English Theological Literature. The works which we possess on the Canon of Scripture, are either too learned or too voluminous, for the use of common readers. Besides, the whole subject has been seldom treated by the same author; for while one vindicates the Canon of the Old Testament alone, another confines himself to the settling of the Canon of the New Testament.

The object of the writer of this work is to exhibit a compendious view of the whole subject, and in such a form as will be level to the capacities of all descriptions of readers. He has aimed at bringing forward the result of the researches of learned men, who have

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