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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Title: 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.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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The Synodal Constitutions of Geofrey of Saint Brice Bishop of Saintes in the Years 1280, and 1282,

THis Bishop Publish'd in the Year 1280, several Synodal Decrees about the Church-Discipline. It is therein Order'd, That all his Curates shall appear at the Synod: That the Fonts shall be * 1.1 shut up: That the Holy Chrism shall be kept in proper Vessels: That there shall be Three Spon∣sors at Baptism: That the Body of Jesus Christ shall be attended when carry'd out to the Sick: That no Corn nor Measures shall be put in Churches: That the Commissions shall be Directed to the Curates and Executed by them. He reserves a great many Cases to the Bishop, and Lastly, He there∣in forbids the Vilifying the Jacobine or Minor Friars who take Confessions, by accusing them of dis∣covering the Confessions of their Penitents.

The same Bishop Publish'd other Constitutions in the Year 1282, about Excommunicated Persons about the Right of Visitation, and about Last Wills and Testaments.

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The Synodal Constitutions of Geofrey of Brice Bishop of Saintes in the Years 1280, and 1282.

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