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.

A TABLE of BOOKS that belong to the Old Testament, Canonical, Apocryphal, and Lost.

Canonical Books unanimously received by Jews and Christians.

Those Books thus divided are 22.

• THE five Books of Moses.
• The Book of Joshua.
• The Book of Judges.
• The Book of Samuel, i. e. the first and second Books of Kings.
• Isaiah.
• Jeremiah.
• Ezechiel.
• ...The Twelve minor Prophets.
• The Book of Job.
• The 150 Psalms.
• • The Proverbs
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Canticles
  • Daniel.
  of Solomon.
• The Chronicles.
• Ezra divided by us into Two Books.

Books owned by some Jews as Canonical and re∣jected by others.

• Esther.
• Ruth.
• Baruch.

Books rejected by Jews, and most Primitive of the Christians, as Apocryphal, and afterwards received by the Church.

• Tobit.
• Judith.
• Wisdom.
• Ecclesiasticus.
• The two Books of Maccabees.
• The History of Susanna.
• Bell and the Dragon.

Books cited in the Old Testament, which are lost.

• The Book of the Covenant, Exod. 24. [This does not

• seem to be a Book by it self, but only those Laws which are set down in the 10, 21, 22 and 23d Chap∣ters foregoing: for the People promised in the same Verse, That all which the Lord hath said, they would do, and be obedient, (Exod. 24. 7.) which words refer to the Laws set down above, that God delivered to Mo∣ses upon the Mount.]
• The Book of the Wars of the Lord, Numb. 21. 14.
• The Book of Jasher, Josh. 10. 13. 2 Sam. 1. 18.
• The Books of Nathan, Gad, Shemaiah, Iddo, Ahijah, Je∣hu, Chron.
• The Book of Samuel, 1 Chron. 29. 29. [This also seems to be no other than the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament; in which, as every one knows, there is a very particular Account of David's Life, from his Unction by Samuel, till his Death.]
• The Sayings of Hozai [or as our Translation renders it, of the Seers.] 2 Chron. 33. 19.
• The Discourses of Uzziah, 2 Chron. 26. 22. [This is obscurely expressed: He means the Life of Uzziah, written by the Prophet Isaiah.]
• Three thousand Proverbs of Solomon, 1 Kings 4. 32.
• A thousand and five Songs. Ibid.
• Several other Discourses of his. Ibid.
• The Descriptions of Jeremiah, Matth. 2. 17. [What our Author means here, I cannot tell. The Evangelist quotes the Prophet Jeremiah, (31. 15.) and the sence of the words in the Prophet, agrees with that of those in the Evangelist, exactly.]
• The Memoirs of Hyrcanus.
• The Books of Jason.

Apocryphal Books, not dangerous.

• The Prayer of King Manesses.
• The Third and Fourth Books of Esdras.
• The Third and Fourth Books of the Maccabees.
• The Genealogy of Job, and a Discourse of his Wife. The 151st Psalm.

Other Apocryphal Books of the same Nature, which are lost.

• The Book of Enoch.
• The Book of the Assumption of Moses.

Books forged by Jews and Hereticks, Fabulous and Erroneous, which are lost.

• The Generations of Creation of Adam.
• The Revelation of Adam.
• A Book of Magick by Cham.
• The Assumption of Abraham.
• The Book of the Twelve Patriarchs.
• A Book of Jannes and Jambres.
• A Book written by King Og.
• Jacob's Ladder.
• The Genealogy of the Sons and Daughters of Adam. With several others.

Greek Translations.

• An old Version of the Bible, or of some part of it.
• The Translation of the LXX. Interpreters.
• Aquila's Version.
• Theodotion's Version.
• Symmachus's Version.
• A Fifth and a Sixth Version.
• A Seventh upon the Psalms.

Authors whose Books have a Relation to the Histo∣ry of the Old Testament.

Genuine.

• Philo.
• Josephus.
• Justus.

Forged or Doubtful.

• Aristeas.
• Aristobulus.
• Joseph. Bengorion.
• Pseudo-Berosus.
• Manetho.
• Metasthenes.
• Pseudo-Dorothens.
• Zoroaster.
• Sanchoniathon.
• Philo Byblius.
• The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs.