Why would the 16th century church fathers remove them from the Canon? What did they want to keep hidden from the believers? In my humble opinion (IMHO) after studying them I think they removed items that would make you aware of the current deception of the Apostate church. False teachers abound and so does false doctrine like the rapture. (see this post regarding the rapture)
Such as:
For example in 2nd Esdras we read:
2nd Esdras 13: (Key words Left Behind which I will embolden)
{13:15} Shew me now yet the interpretation of this dream.
{13:16} For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe
unto them that shall be left in those days and much more
woe unto them that are not left behind!
{13:17} For they that were not left were in heaviness.
{13:18} Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter
days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
{13:19} Therefore are they come into great perils and
many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
{13:20} Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come
into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the
world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days.
And he answered unto me, and said,
{13:21} The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee,
and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.
{13:22} Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left
behind, this is the interpretation:
{13:23} He that shall endure the peril in that time hath
kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as
have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
{13:24} Know this therefore, that they which be left
behind are more blessed than they that be dead.
Note: This sounds like leaving in a pre-tribulation rapture would not be a good plan.
2nd Esdras 13:
{13:25} This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou
sawest a man coming up from the midst of the sea:
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Note: The sea represents people, the man coming up would be Christ.
{13:26} The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept
a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his
creature: and he shall order them that are left behind.
{13:27} And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth
there came as a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;
{13:28} And that he held neither sword, nor any
instrument of war, but that the rushing in of him destroyed
the whole multitude that came to subdue him; this is the
interpretation:
{13:29} Behold, the days come, when the most High will
begin to deliver them that are upon the earth.
{13:30} And he shall come to the astonishment of them
that dwell on the earth.
{13:31} And one shall undertake to fight against another,
one city against another, one place against another, one
people against another, and one realm against another.
{13:32} And the time shall be when these things shall
come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed
thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou
sawest as a man ascending.
{13:33} And when all the people hear his voice, every
man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one
against another.
{13:34} And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered
together, as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to
overcome him by fighting.
{13:35} But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
{13:36} And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all
men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill
graven without hands.
{13:37} And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked
inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are
fallen into the tempest;
{13:38} And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and
the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented,
which are like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them
without labour by the law which is like unto me.
{13:39} And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another
peaceable multitude unto him;
{13:40} Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away
prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king,
whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and
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he carried them over the waters, and so came they into
another land.
{13:41} But they took this counsel among themselves,
that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go
forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
{13:42} That they might there keep their statutes, which
they never kept in their own land.
{13:43} And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow
places of the river.
{13:44} For the most High then shewed signs for them,
and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
{13:45} For through that country there was a great way to
go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is
called Arsareth.
{13:46} Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and
now when they shall begin to come,
Note: The Euphrates is drying up right now.
{13:47} The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream
again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the
multitude with peace.
{13:48} But those that be left behind of thy people are
they that are found within my borders.
{13:49} Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the
nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people
that remain.
{13:50} And then shall he shew them great wonders.
Further teaching by video into the meat of this Word.
Those Left Behind/The Apocrypha/Pt. 1
THE STREAM OF KNOWLEDGE THE APOCRYPHA
Take the time to avoid deception and dig into God's Word to see if these things be true.
Acts 17:11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.
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