neither from itself nor from its authors any canonical authority but that it has borrowed it from elsewhere, namely, from the authority of the church. It is, however, manifest blasphemy that, if the present church, namely, the Roman pontiff with his prelates, would desert the Scripture with their authority, it would of itself have no more authority than Aesop’s fables. The canonical Scripture has its eminent authority chiefly from this, that it is divinely inspired, 2 Tim. 3:16, that is, that it