But we hold that which they [i.e., Rome, rlv] confesse, that the Word written in the Canonicall bookes is undoubtedly signed with Thus saith the Lord of Hostes; as for the Apocryphall Scriptures, not onely the Fathers, but their owne men have branded them for Bastards, before ever wee challenged them; therefore doe not wee recommend them to the people further than they agree with the Bookes Canonicall. Neither doe we burden the peoples consciences with their Unwritten Word, whereupon themselves are not yet resolved, eyther where or what it is. Wherefore, Thus saith the Lord, must limit the Pastors message, and the Peoples faith must not desire any thing beyond it, for it is a sure foundation.
Arthure Lake, one of King James’s translators, Sermons, with Some Religious and Divine Meditations, London: W. Stansby, 1629, pp. 108-109
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