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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The Council of Soissons, held in the Year, 1092.

ROSCELIN, a Clerk of the Church of Compiegne, and a very able Logician, gave it out * 1.1 in the end of the Eleventh Century, That the three Divine Persons of the Holy Trinity were three Things: This Opinion was condemn'd in a Council held at Soissons, A. D. 1092. un∣der

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Raynold Arch-bishop of Rheims, and confuted by St. Anselm, by Ives of Chartres, and even * 1.2 by Abaelard, who is reputed to have been his Pupil. Roscelin was oblig'd to make an abju∣ration of his Error in that Council, but afterward he did not forbear to maintain it obstinate∣ly, and for that reason was banish'd from France and England. THEOBALD, a Clerk of the Church of Etampes likewise wrote a Letter against him, on another Subject, viz. to shew, That the Sons of Priests may be admitted into the Clergy.

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