For all of the Law and the
Prophets, which delivered the Holy Oracles to us, Malachi was the last;
by whose Prophecy ending at St. John the Baptist; under the Title and
Type of Elias, there is a manifest Combination of the Old and
New Testament together: the Ending of that last Prophecy being set
forth and declared by St. Mark, . . . (John Cosin, A Scholastical
History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture, or the Certains and in Dubitate
Books Therefore as They are Received in the Church of England [1657], 3,
emphasis in bold added)
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