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Article 4: The Canonical Books
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We include in the Holy Scripture the two volumes
of the Old and New Testaments.
They are canonical books
with which there can be no quarrel at all.

In the church of God the list is as follows:
In the Old Testament,
   the five books of Moses--
      Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy;
   the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth;
   the two books of Samuel, and two of Kings;
   the two books of Chronicles, called Paralipomenon;
   the first book of Ezra; Nehemiah, Esther, Job;
   the Psalms of David;
   the three books of Solomon--
   Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song;
the four major prophets--
   Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel;
and then the other twelve minor prophets--
   Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah,
   Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk,
   Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.

In the New Testament,
   the four gospels--
   Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John;
   the Acts of the Apostles;
   the fourteen letters of Paul--
   to the Romans;
   the two letters to the Corinthians;
   to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians;
   the two letters to the Thessalonians;
   the two letters to Timothy;
   to Titus, Philemon, and to the Hebrews;
   the seven letters of the other apostles--
   one of James;
   two of Peter;
   three of John;
   one of Jude;
   and the Revelation of the apostle John.

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