A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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Nico of Armenia.
NIco of Armenia was very young, when without his Parents consent he shut himself up in the Monastery of the golden Rock, scituate betwen Pontus and Paphlagonia. After he had * 1.1 there led for a long time a very austere life, in the Year 961. he was sent out on a Mission by his Superior. He preached in Armenia, and in other Provinces of the East, and from thence went to the Isle of Crete, which had lately shaken off the Yoke of the Sarazens. He purg'd this Island from those Pagan superstitions which were still in use among them, and brought over a great many persons to the Faith. He retir'd afterwards to Lacedemonia, from whence he was sent for to Corinth, by his Prayers to put a stop the incursions of the
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Bulgarians. He dy'd in the year 998. He is said to be the Author of a little Treatise of the Religion of the Armenians, containing an Abridgment of their Errors, which is to be seen in Latin in the Bibliotheca Patrum, together with a fragment against irregular and rash ex∣communications, where he says that they recoyl back on those persons who dart them out too rashly.