Evolution and creation

by Herbert Junius Hardwicke

Books that are Excluded from 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.

NEW TESTAMENT.

Books Owned as Canonical at all times and by all Christians.

• The Four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
• The Acts of the Apostles.
• Thirteen Epistles of St. Paul.
• The First Epistle of St. Peter.
• The First Epistle of St. John.

Books Questioned, but afterwards Admitted by the Church as Canonical.